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15 produkter
Balkans in World History
E-bok, 2008
336 kr
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In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History …
Russian Literature
Av Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky
Inbunden, 2009
1141 kr
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers – nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev – or a few well-known works – Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the …
Russian Literature
Av Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky
Häftad, 2009
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
378 kr
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the …
Russian Literature
Av Ilya Vinitsky, Andrew Baruch Wachtel
E-bok, 2013
431 kr
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov''s plays, Brodsky''s poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the …
Obsession with History
Russian Writers Confront the Past
Inbunden, 1994
1824 kr
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The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works …
Obsession with History
Russian Writers Confront the Past
Häftad, 1995
441 kr
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The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works …
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation
Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Inbunden, 1998
1586 kr
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This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of …
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation
Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of …
And Other Stories
Av Georgi Gospodinov, Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Inbunden, 2007
1550 kr
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Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly …
Remaining Relevant after Communism
The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2006
398 kr
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More than any other art form, literature defined Eastern Europe as a cultural and political entity in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often persecuted by the state, East European writers formed what was frequently recognized to be a "second government," and their voices were …
Plays of Expectations
Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama
Häftad, 2006
526 kr
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Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems to share a family resemblance. Drama is a particularly rich and rewarding field for studying the complex ways in which such expectations are created. …
Petrushka
Sources and Contexts
Inbunden, 1998
467 kr
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The contributors - two Slavicists, a musicologist and an art historian - offer a detailed exploration of the ballet, "Petrushka", which premiered in Russia in 1911 and became one of the most important and influential theatrical works of the modernist period.
Loss
A Novella and Two Short Stories
Av Vladimir Makanin, Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Inbunden, 1998
827 kr
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The novella and two short stories that make up this volume were written at three different periods in Makanin's life, yet they are united by their narrative and stylistic invention, their range of human emotion, and the profound humanity of their prose. Though banished and suppressed in the …
