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A Hero of Two Times: Erast Fandorin and the Refurbishment of Genre

Mulcahy, Robert Alan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369768067

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.
This study investigates the popular Adventures of Erast Fandorin series of Boris Akunin, Russia’s best-selling author of detective fiction. With the aid of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of the chronotope and the zone of maximal contact, it addresses questions of genre (in a transnational context), serialization, and the role of zlobodnevnye voprosy (`current issues’) in historical fiction. My analysis locates Akunin in the history of international detective fiction in order to appraise his contribution not only to the genre but also to modern Russian literature. To account for Akunin’s influential status in his home country, I hypothesize the reasons for the extraordinary success of his works and the cult around the protagonist of the series, as well as the significance of Fandorin’s values for contemporary Russian society.
Helena Goscilo, Dr. (Advisor)
234 p.
East European Studies; Literature; Modern Literature; Russian History; Slavic Literature; Slavic Studies

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  • Mulcahy, R. A. (2013). A Hero of Two Times: Erast Fandorin and the Refurbishment of Genre [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369768067

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mulcahy, Robert. A Hero of Two Times: Erast Fandorin and the Refurbishment of Genre. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369768067.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mulcahy, Robert. "A Hero of Two Times: Erast Fandorin and the Refurbishment of Genre." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369768067

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