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Neil Cornwell (1942–2020)

Author of The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

14+ Works 76 Members

About the Author

Neil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol

Works by Neil Cornwell

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (2001) 21 copies

Reference guide to Russian literature (1998) 13 copies

The Absurd in Literature (2006) 12 copies

Literary Fantastic from Gothic to Postmodernism (1990) 6 copies

Vladimir Nabokov (Writers and Their Work (Unnumbered).) (1999) 4 copies

The Life, Times, and Milieu of V.F. Odoyevsky, 1804-1869 (1986) 4 copies

James Joyce and the Russians (1992) 4 copies

Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (1993) 3 copies

Odoevsky's Four Pathways into Modern Fiction: A Comparative Study (2010) 3 copies

Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd: Essays and Materials (Studies in Russia and East Europe) (1991) 2 copies

vladimir odoevsky and romantic poetics: collected essays (1998) 1 copy

Pasternak's novel : perspectives on "Doctor Zhivago" (1986) 1 copy

Reference Guide to Russian Literature 1 copy

The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks, 117) (1998) 1 copy

Associated Works

Incidences (1993) — Translator, some editions — 335 copies, 3 reviews

My Discovery of America (1926) — Translator, some editions — 61 copies, 1 review

Two Princesses (Hesperus Classics) (2003) — Translator, some editions — 28 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1942-09-22
Date of death: 2020-03-23
Gender: male
Education: University of Belfast
University of London
Occupations: Professor Emeritus of Russian and Comparative Literature
Organizations: University of Bristol
Queen's University, Belfast
Cause of death: Parkinson's disease
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Redditch, Worcestershire, UK
Places of residence: Clifton, Bristol, England, UK
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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Statistics

Works: 14
Also by: 3
Members: 76
Popularity: #233,521
Rating: 4.2

ISBNs: 37

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University of Bristol in memoriam page

Guardian obituary (by his wife)

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