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Fedorova, Milla.

Yankees in Petrograd, bolsheviks in New York America and Americans in Russian literary perception / [electronic resource] : Milla Fedorova. - DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 299 pages )

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.

Bolsheviks in New York -- Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America: Korolenko and Gorky -- Post-revolutionary Columbuses: Esenin and Mayakovsky -- Automobile journeys of the 1930s: Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov -- The American text of Russian literature -- Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues -- Yankees in Petrograd -- Reverse American travelogues -- Conclusion: from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca.

ISBN: 9781609090852

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Travelers' writings, Russian--History and criticism.--20th century
Travelers' writings, Russian--History and criticism.--19th century
Authors, Russian--Travel--United States.
Americans in literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Description and travel--In literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PG2988.U6 / F43 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 891.709/35873