Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History – serie
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I Saw It
Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Inbunden, 2013
1040 kr
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In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as …
I Saw It
Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah
E-bok, 2013
2853 kr
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In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as …
Andrei Siniavskii
A Hero of His Time?
Inbunden, 2013
1302 kr
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This groundbreaking critical biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a writer in and of his time shows how this subtle and complex author found his way in a society polarized into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors, how he progressed from identification with the value system and …
I Saw It
Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Häftad, 2014
279 kr
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In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as …
Poetry and Psychiatry
Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1196 kr
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A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an apocalyptic upheaval. They were influenced by …
Poetry and Psychiatry
Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture
Häftad, 2014
244 kr
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A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an apocalyptic upheaval. They were influenced by …
Literature, Exile, Alterity
The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets
Inbunden, 2014
1196 kr
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This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and …
Literature, Exile, Alterity
The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets
E-bok, 2014
3186 kr
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This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and …
"Our Native Antiquity"
Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism
Inbunden, 2015
1235 kr
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For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they …
Our Native Antiquity
Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism
E-bok, 2015
2853 kr
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“‘Our Native Antiquity’: Archaeology and Aesthetics in theCulture of Russian Modernism is one of those works whose theme seems to lie in plain view, but, untilthe appearance of this study, remained unnoticed… It introduces essentialcorrectives to the history of national-cultural …
Watersheds
Poetics and Politics of the Danube River
Av Marijeta Bozovic, Matthew D. Miller
Inbunden, 2016
1515 kr
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From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe’s second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide …
Fifty-Five Years with Russia
Häftad, 2016
198 kr
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Professor Magnus Ljunggren looks back over his meetings with leading members of the Russian intelligentsia and their struggle with the totalitarian structures of Soviet and post-Soviet society.The academic career of internationally recognized Professor of Slavic Studies Magnus Ljunggren spans more …
Spaces of Creativity (ENG)
Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts
Av Ksana Blank
Inbunden, 2016
1196 kr
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In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often …
War, Revolution, and Governance
The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century
Av Lazar Fleishman, Amir Weiner
Inbunden, 2018
1526 kr
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The 20th century in the Baltic region had it all. The turbulent century did not spare the small territory and its population, which was visited by practically every calamity the modern era had to offer. At westward edge of the Russian Empire, the region was subjected to the harsh Russification …
"Our Native Antiquity"
Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism
Häftad, 2018
352 kr
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For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they …
Literature, Exile, Alterity
The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets
Häftad, 2018
321 kr
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This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and …
Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Häftad, 2018
435 kr
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Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, …
Early Modern Russian Letters
Texts and Contexts
Häftad, 2018
597 kr
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Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy …
Superstitious Muse
Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically
Av David Bethea
Häftad, 2018
617 kr
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For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a …
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak
Av Frederick T. Griffiths, Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Häftad, 2018
485 kr
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Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form …
Life in Transit
Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950
Häftad, 2018
320 kr
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Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich’s widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich’s personal memories …
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
Av Oliver Smith
Häftad, 2018
525 kr
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While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the …
Ivan Konevskoi
"Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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Ivan Konevskoi: “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi –— poet, thinker, mystic— – for many decades the “lost genius” of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into the currents of modern mystical thought and art in …
Karamazov Correspondence
Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev
Av Vladimir S. Soloviev, Vladimir Wozniuk
Inbunden, 2019
1573 kr
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The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev represents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet’s most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English. Soloviev was widely known …
Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century
Av Ingrid Kleespies, Lyudmila Parts
Inbunden, 2021
1158 kr
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Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of …
Gogol’s Crime and Punishment
An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls
Av Urs Heftrich
Inbunden, 2022
1409 kr
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This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel’s meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. …
In Quest of Tolstoy
Av Hugh McLean
Inbunden, 2008
950 kr
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Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human …
Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit
Inbunden, 2009
1447 kr
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Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential …
Keys to The Gift
A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel
Av Yuri Leving
Inbunden, 2011
1960 kr
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Yuri Leving's Keys to “The Gift”: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since …
Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Inbunden, 2009
2003 kr
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Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, …
