Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas – serie
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7 produkter
Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991
Av Katharine Hodgson, Alexandra Smith
Häftad, 2020
1008 kr
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The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it should be remembered. The publication of previously barely known underground and émigré literary works presented an …
Art of Accommodation
Literary Translation in Russia
Häftad, 2013
951 kr
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This collection of essays is a seminal contribution to the establishment of translation theory within the field of Russian literature and culture. It brings together the work of established academics and younger scholars from the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Sweden and France in an …
Stalin’s Ghosts
Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
Häftad, 2012
981 kr
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Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii …
Ruler in the Garden
Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia
Häftad, 2007
1169 kr
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This monograph examines the contributions of landscape design to authority and to organization of public life in imperial Russia. Analyzing how tsars and nobles inscribed their political aspirations in the gardens they designed or inhabited, this study maps out a distinct trajectory in the meaning …
Lydia Ginzburg’s Alternative Literary Identities
A Collection of Articles and New Translations
Av Emily Van Buskirk, Andrei Zorin
Häftad, 2012
849 kr
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Known in her lifetime primarily as a literary scholar, Lydia Ginzburg (1902–1990) has become celebrated for a body of writing at the intersections of literature, history, psychology, and sociology. In highly original prose, she acted as a chronicler of the Soviet intelligentsia, a …
Leningrad Poetry 1953–1975
The Thaw Generation
Av Emily Lygo
Häftad, 2010
1023 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings together memoirs, interviews, and archival research to construct an account of the world of poetry in Leningrad, in which many now-famous figures …
Persisting in Folly
Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013
Häftad, 2017
992 kr
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The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool – and the voice of the fool – has carried additional appeal as an enduring source of comic …
