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58 produkter
Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation
Av Jacques Catteau, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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Jacques Catteau's much-acclaimed book on Dostoyevsky, which has already received three literary prizes (and one medical) in France, appears here in English for the first time. It is an original and detailed attempt to re-examine Dostoyevsky the artist, tracing the creative process from its …
The Development of Russian Verse
Meter and its Meanings
Av Michael Wachtel, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, showing how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and, at times, specific themes. Michael Wachtel's basic thesis is that form is never neutral: poets can react positively in terms of …
Russian Literature
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2001
106 kr
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This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will …
Refining Russia
Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin
E-bok, 2001
1106 kr
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Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia between the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. It reflected changing attitudes to appropriate behaviour in private and public, to the …
Russian Literature
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2001
141 kr
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This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will …
Russian Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2001
130 kr
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This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera.Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will …
Soviet Art House
Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev
Inbunden, 2021
2705 kr
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Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles as they struggled to make art in an …
Soviet Art House
Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev
Häftad, 2021
668 kr
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Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles as they struggled to make art in an …
Soviet Art House
Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev
E-bok, 2021
548 kr
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Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles as they struggled to make art in an …
A History of Russian Women's Writing 1820-1992
Häftad, 1998
2336 kr
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Russian women's writing is now attracting enormous interest both in the West and in Russia itself. This is the first one-volume history of the subject to appear in any language in modern times. Written from a bold feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual …
Refining Russia
Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin
Inbunden, 2001
1978 kr
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Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia between the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. It reflected changing attitudes to appropriate behaviour in private and public, to the …
An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing 1777-1992
Häftad, 1994
1980 kr
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This is the first systematic historical anthology of Russian women's writing to appear in any language.At a time of growing interest, both in the West and in Russia itself, the Anthology provides a radically new sense of the dynamic development of Russian women's writing - poetry, prose, and drama …
Russian Cultural Studies
An Introduction
Av Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd
Häftad, 1998
970 kr
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Intended as a companion to Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940 (also published by OUP) and covering a later period until the present day, this stimulating, original, and controversial book will not only be a vital resource for university courses on Russian culture at …
Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940
Av Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd
Häftad, 1998
1210 kr
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Constructing Russian Culture offers a pioneering new account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in Late Imperial Russia and Revolutionary Russia. The general consensus in Western study of Russia and the Soviet Union has been that understanding of `historical background' …
St Petersburg
Shadows of the Past
Inbunden, 2014
678 kr
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Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its …
St Petersburg
Shadows of the Past
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its …
Russian Cultural Anthropology after the Collapse of Communism
Av Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2510 kr
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In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality of …
Russian Literature and Empire
Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy
Av Susan Layton, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
560 kr
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This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the …
Christianity in Bakhtin
God and the Exiled Author
Av Ruth Coates, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however, to the Christian dimension of his work. Christianity in Bakhtin for the first time fills this …
Russian Modernism
The Transfiguration of the Everyday
Av Stephen C. Hutchings, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt …
Reading Russian Fortunes
Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765
Av Faith Wigzell, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream …
Andrei Bitov
The Ecology of Inspiration
Av Ellen Chances, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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This is the first book on Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers. It plots his evolution from his early publications of the post-Stalin years to his mature masterpieces of the glasnost era. Ellen Chances assesses his place both in the Russian literary tradition from …
From the Idyll to the Novel
Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose
Av Gitta Hammarberg, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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Karamzin was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century Sentimentalist movement. In this study, Gitta Hammarberg makes use of advances in literary theory (especially those based on the work of Bakhtin and Voloshinov) in order to develop a theory of Sentimentalist literature, …
Nikolai Zabolotsky
Play for Mortal Stakes
Av Darra Goldstein, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first significant poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote poetry both highly experimental and classical. This book, first published in …
Iurii Trifonov
Unity through Time
Av David Gillespie, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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Iurii Trifonov (1925-81) has become well known in the West as a writer of Soviet urban life. This study, first published in 1993, concentrates on his exploration of major events in Russian history (such as the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and the Russian Civil War) and their implications and …
Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution
Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy
Av Efraim Sicher, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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This work is an innovative and controversial study of how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled in very different …
Contemporary Russian Satire
A Genre Study
Av Karen L. Ryan-Hayes, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
677 kr
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This wide-ranging 1996 study presents an examination of the extraordinary diversity and range of satirical writing in Russian literature and will be of interest not only to Slavicists but also to those interested in genre theory. Through the close analysis of seminal satirical texts written by five …
Andrei Platonov
Uncertainties of Spirit
Av Thomas Seifrid, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes such figures as Vladimir Solov'ev, Mikhail Bakhtin and Boris Pasternak. This 1992 study investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery and the use of language in his prose. Thomas Seifrid …
English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance
Av Rachel Polonsky, Catriona Kelly
Häftad, 2006
677 kr
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The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time of great receptivity to foreign cultural influences. Among the most important of these were English poetry and aesthetic thought, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination. This 1998 book is a …
The Last Soviet Avant-Garde
OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction
Av Graham Roberts, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1010 kr
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This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts re-examines commonly held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as a group, its aesthetics and its place …
