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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 …
Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
Av George Pattison, Diane Oenning Thompson
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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Dostoevsky is one of Russia's greatest novelists and a major influence in modern debates about religion, both in Russia and the West. This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in his work. The aim of this collection is not to …
The Brothers Karamazov and the Poetics of Memory
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's last and most complex novel. It represents the fullest expression of his quest to achieve a literary work which would express the dilemmas and aspirations of his time and also represent the eternal, absolute values he perceived in the Christian tradition. …
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 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 …
Velimir Khlebnikov
A Critical Study
Av Raymond Cooke, Catriona Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery. This book provides a broad survey of his work. Dr Cooke's aim is to be both informative and interpretative by mapping out …
Wagner and Russia
Häftad, 2007
916 kr
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Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials and other contemporary sources, aims to show …
Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts
Av Catriona Kelly, Stephen Lovell
Häftad, 2008
897 kr
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In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, most particularly the visual arts. Collaborations between writers, artists, designers, and theatre and cinema directors took place more intensively and productively than ever before or since. Equally …
Bulgakov's Last Decade
The Writer as Hero
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel …
Petrushka
The Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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Petrushka, the Russian equivalent of Punch and Judy, was one of the most popular spectacles at fairgrounds and in city courtyards for over a century. Catriona Kelly's study, the first to appear in English, traces the history of Petrushka, illustrating how it reflected the tensions of Russian urban …
Three Russian Writers and the Irrational
Zamyatin, Pil'nyak, and Bulgakov
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers, including the three important Soviet writers considered by Dr Edwards in this book. Since the 1917 Revolution the polemic between rationalists and irrationalists has become directly …
Novy Mir
A Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Originally published in 1981, this book is an examination of the politics of literary publishing in the Soviet Union, and in particular during the period after Stalin's death, in the 1950s. Dr Frankel focuses on the leading literary journal of the 1950s, Novy Mir, between whose covers so much …
The Enigma of Gogol
An Examination of the Writings of N. V. Gogol and their Place in the Russian Literary Tradition
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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Gogol's place in Russian literature is unique. He is Russia's classic comic writer, yet the phrase 'laughter through tears', which has been applied to him, hints at darker and more tragic overtones. One of the most idiosyncratic of writers, his influence has nevertheless been profound. Appearing to …
Nabokov's Early Fiction
Patterns of Self and Other
Häftad, 2009
710 kr
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This book traces the evolution of Vladimir Nabokov's prose fiction from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s. While individual works by Nabokov have attracted extensive commentary, the precise contours of Nabokov's development as a writer of fiction have received little attention. Julian Connolly traces …
Nikolay Novikov
Enlightener of Russia
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Nikolay Novikov (1744-1818) was a key figure in Russian cultural life under Catherine the Great. He was in turn a successful journalist, historiographer, educator, publisher, leading freemason and philanthropist and he left his distinctive mark on each of these spheres at a formative moment in …
Joseph Brodsky
A Poet for our Time
Häftad, 2009
692 kr
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The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded increasing attention among both Russian specialists and a wider audience interested in modern culture. In 1987 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book, the first in English to be devoted entirely to him, presents a …
Portraits of Early Russian Liberals
A Study of the Thought of T. N. Granovsky, V. P. Botkin, P. V. Annenkov, A. V. Druzhinin, and K. D. Kavelin
Av Derek Offord
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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This book studies the work of five Russian liberal thinkers who were active in the period 1840-60 against the general background of Russian history, literature and thought in that period. All five thinkers (to each of whom a separate chapter is devoted) played an important part in the flowering of …
The Poetic Imagination of Vyacheslav Ivanov
A Russian Symbolist's Perception of Dante
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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Vyacheslav Ivanov, poet, philosopher and critic, played a key role in the formation of the early twentieth-century Russian literature as leader of the religious branch of the Symbolist movement and his influence spread to Europe after his emigration to Italy in 1924. Pamela Davidson explores …
