Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context – serie
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Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence
Iconizing Emotion by Blending Time, Media, and the Senses
Inbunden, 2019
1385 kr
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The book examines Russian symbolist texts and turns the focus from their traditional historic-cultural interpretations to analyze the symbolist cognitive aesthetics—aesthetics that govern links between poetry, art, and cinema and the sensory-emotional imagery they evoke. This aesthetics …
Physical Pain and Justice
Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel
Inbunden, 2017
1466 kr
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It has been said that all great literature is about suffering. But before the twentieth century, physical pain, one of the most primal forms of human suffering, has rarely been represented on the stage and in fiction. But when it is foregrounded in works of literature, it is not only the most …
Chekhov's Letters
Biography, Context, Poetics
Av Carol Apollonio, Radislav Lapushin
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here …
Babel in Russian and Other Literatures and Topographies
The Tower, the State, and the Chaos of Language
Inbunden, 2019
1385 kr
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This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples, in Russian literature and other topographies. The author pursues its linking of language, architecture, and society as well as its relevance in art and literature over …
Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution
Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm
Inbunden, 2020
1385 kr
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Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth century through fruition in early Soviet society. …
Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary
The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle
Inbunden, 2023
1385 kr
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Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military …
Russian Literature and Cognitive Science
Av Tom Dolack
Inbunden, 2024
1628 kr
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Russian Literature and Cognitive Science applies the newest insights from cognitive psychology to the study of Russian literature. Chapters focus on writers and cultural figures from the Golden to the Internet Age including: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sologub, Bely, Akhmatova, Nabokov, …
Reader’s Guide to Yuri Tynianov’s The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
Beyond the Document to Modernist Invention
Inbunden, 2027
1452 kr
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This edited collection is the first critical collection on the author in English and it approaches the breadth and depth of Tynianov’s thought by focusing on his fiction, specifically his major, most cryptic and experimental novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar (1928). Deeply rooted in and showcasing …
Dissents, Contradictions, and Ambiguities of the Soviet Unofficial Literature
The Impossible Community
Inbunden, 2026
1466 kr
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The book discusses the internal structure of the Soviet unofficial literary community of Leningrad in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on the concepts of Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Derrida, it describes the factors that contributed to the "loosening" of the community's stability – a task …
Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia
Envy and Authorship in the 1920s
Inbunden, 2020
1790 kr
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In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia’s volatile axiological hierarchy. …
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist
Self-Destruction and the Creative Process
Inbunden, 2021
1790 kr
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In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings …
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist
Self-Destruction and the Creative Process
Häftad, 2022
591 kr
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In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings …
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia
Biography for the Masses
Av Ludmilla A. Trigos, Carol Ueland
Inbunden, 2022
1502 kr
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The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: …
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia
Biography for the Masses
Av Ludmilla A. Trigos, Carol Ueland
Häftad, 2024
591 kr
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The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: …
Nijinsky's Feeling Mind
The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances
Inbunden, 2023
1628 kr
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Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates …
Nijinsky's Feeling Mind
The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances
Häftad, 2026
428 kr
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Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates …
