Preface - The Critical Legacy of the Twentieth Century and Russian Studies Today - Russia and Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Some General Remarks - The Biographical and Literary Contexts of the Russian Classic Writers - The Arrival Motif and the Monoplot of the Russian Classics - Metaphor is to Dostoyevsky as Metonymy is to Tolstoy - Why Are Russian Novels So Long? - A Proposed Periodization of Russian Literature, 1825- 1918 - Epilogue: The Heart of Russian Literature - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.