Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1. Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life 2. The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature Part II: 3. Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday 4. Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess Part III: 5. The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and The Christened Chinaman 6. Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy 7. At the 'I' of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's Whirlwind Russia Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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