Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century – serie
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Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2009
3186 kr
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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively …
Chapaev and his Comrades
War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2012
1409 kr
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Across the twentieth century, the Russian literary hero remained central to Russian fiction and frequently “battled” one enemy or another, whether on the battlefield or on a civilian front. War was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet …
Translator's Doubts
Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation
Inbunden, 2015
1196 kr
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Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the …
Landmarks Revisited
The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On
Av Robin Aizlewood, Ruth Coates
Inbunden, 2014
1409 kr
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The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia in the period of crisis that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was published as …
“I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”
The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms
Häftad, 2013
351 kr
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In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these …
Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters
Inbunden, 2016
1170 kr
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This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. Petersburg …
Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters
Häftad, 2017
331 kr
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This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. Petersburg …
Human Reimagined
Posthumanism in Russia
Av Colleen McQuillen, Julia Vaingurt
Inbunden, 2018
1832 kr
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The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterises lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as …
Human Reimagined
Posthumanism in Russia
Av Colleen McQuillen, Julia Vaingurt
Häftad, 2018
673 kr
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The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterises lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as …
Chapaev and his Comrades
War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2018
531 kr
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Across the twentieth century, the Russian literary hero remained central to Russian fiction and frequently “battled” one enemy or another, whether on the battlefield or on a civilian front. War was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet …
Landmarks Revisited
The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On
Av Robin Aizlewood, Ruth Coates
Häftad, 2018
604 kr
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The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia in the period of crisis that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was published as …
Translator's Doubts
Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation
Häftad, 2018
485 kr
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Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the …
Strangers in a Strange Land
Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries
Av Paul Manning
Häftad, 2018
541 kr
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Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge …
Beyond Tula
A Soviet Pastoral
Häftad, 2019
335 kr
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Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet “production” prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and …
Overwriting Chaos
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds
Inbunden, 2020
1596 kr
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Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine …
Overwriting Chaos
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine …
Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes
Inbunden, 2009
1610 kr
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This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” and “civilization” and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture …
Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2009
1704 kr
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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively …
Charms of the Cynical Reason
Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Inbunden, 2010
1514 kr
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The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable …
Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2009
448 kr
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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively …
Strangers in a Strange Land
Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries
Av Paul Manning
Inbunden, 2012
1262 kr
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Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge …
“I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”
The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms
Inbunden, 2013
1622 kr
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In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these …
