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At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde
Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism
Av Lars Kleberg
Häftad, 2025
445 kr
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Rediscovering a lost luminary of modernism and the Russian avant-garde This kaleidoscopic biography offers readers a compelling microhistory of a revolutionary moment in art and politics through its portrait of an enigmatic but influential figure: Ivan Aksyonov authored the first book-length study …
Pushkin on Literature
Av Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Tatiana Wolff m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
358 kr
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Women with a Thirst for Destruction
The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
Inbunden, 2014
591 kr
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In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country’s …
Dostoevsky's Secrets
Reading Against the Grain
Häftad, 2018
449 kr
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When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a ""realist in a higher sense,"" it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky's work, reading through the facts-the text-of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, …
Life of Arseniev
Youth
Av Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Gleb Struve m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
328 kr
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Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his émigré period.In ways similar to Nabokov's …
Familiar Letter As a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin
Häftad, 1999
236 kr
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This text examines the tradition of familiar letter writing that developed in the early 1800s among the Arzamasians, a literary circle that included such luminaries as Pushkin, Karamzin and Turgenev, and argues that these letters constitute a distinct literary genre. Todd gives a thorough …
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Sots-art Literature and Soviet Grand Style
Av Marina Balina, etc.
Häftad, 1999
313 kr
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Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological cliches of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. This text examines literary Sots-art on several levels. The book is divided into three parts, the first conceptual, the second on Sots-art poetry, and the third on …
Under the Sky of My Africa
Alexander Pushkin and Blackness
Av Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Ludmilla A. Trigos m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
380 kr
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Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of …
Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
The Path to Universal Brotherhood
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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Anna A. Berman’s book brings to light the significance of sibling relationships in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Relationships in their works have typically been studied through the lens of erotic love in the former, and intergenerational conflict in the latter.In close readings of their …
Pelevin and Unfreedom
Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics
Av Sofya Khagi
Häftad, 2020
510 kr
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Sofya Khagi's Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin's sustained Dostoevskian reflections on the philosophical …
Chekhov and Russian Religious Culture
The Poetics of the Marian Paradigm
Inbunden, 1997
992 kr
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A study of the Virgin Mary and the ""saintly harlots"" - Mary of Egypt and Mary Magdalene - as a cultural paradigm encoded in Chekhov's prose. The author establishes the authority of the Marian paradigm in 19th-century Russian culture with an overview of salient religious and literary texts, then …
Essays on Karolina Pavlova
Av Susanne Fusso, Alexander Lehrman
Inbunden, 2001
1173 kr
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The essays in this collection range widely not only over Karolina Pavlova's oeuvre but also in their analytical stances. The volume includes close poetic and prosodic analysis, literary history, gender studies, intertextual comparison and biography.
Serapion Sister
The Poetry of Elizaveta Polonskaja
Inbunden, 1999
1189 kr
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Elizaveta Polonskaja (1890-1969), was a poet, translator, children's writer, journalist and noted memoirist. This text attempts to restore the neglected poet to her rightful place in the Russian literary tradition, while exploring the the politics that served to obscure her.
Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism
A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens and Gogol
Häftad, 1998
380 kr
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A study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the modern city.
Politics of Reception
Critical Constructions of Mikhail Zoshchenko
Inbunden, 1998
979 kr
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This is a study of the politicised critical responses to a popular Russian author by both Russian and Western critics. Mikhail Zoshchenko was one of the most popular and contentious Russian writers in the period from 1920 to 1950. He and his work have been enlisted by many scholars and critics in …
Art of Writing Badly
Valentin Kataev's Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism
Inbunden, 1999
1058 kr
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The art of writing badly is a phrase the Russian writer Valentin Kataev coined to describe the work that came out of the mauvist movement in Russian literature - a style of writing that consciously challenged Soviet dogma. This ""disobedient"" writing is typically characterized by an exaggerated …
Tolstoy's Phoenix
From Method to Meaning in ""War and Peace
Häftad, 1998
313 kr
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In this text, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and analysis of one of the world's greatest novels. By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analysing the structure of ""War and Peace"", Clay leads the reader to its meaning, deriving the what from the how. How does Tolstoy …
Positive Hero in Russian Literature
Häftad, 2000
297 kr
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In this text, Rufus Mathewson, Jr. discusses Russian literature and demonstrates how the battles over the positive hero reappeared with dramatic clarity in the dissident literary movement that developed following Stalin's death. Mathewson argues that the true continuity in Russian prose, joining …
Mothers and Daughters
Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-century Russia
Häftad, 2000
208 kr
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A psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia which seeks to show how and why women radicals of the 19th century diverged from their male counterparts and to describe the forces that led women to rebel. It also discusses their legacy to future generations.
Red Virgin Soil
Soviet Literature in the 1920s
Häftad, 2000
541 kr
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First published in 1968, this work is a detailed study of a journal written by the author during the 1920s. Maguire's work is also a comprehensive survey of Soviet literary culture in that critical period between the end of the Civil War and the onslaught of the Stalin revolution, a period when …
Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-century Russia
Inbunden, 2000
1058 kr
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This study of the flowering and the antecedents of the picaresque in 17th century Russia seeks to offer new insight into both the genre and its broad appeal to Russian readers. Morris resurrects 18th century picaresques, revealing their fusion of Western and indigenous aesthetics.
Prodigal Son
Vasilii Shuksin in Soviet Russian Culture
Av John Givens
Inbunden, 2000
976 kr
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A prolific director, actor and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This study of Shukshin and his work is therefore a portrait of the culture of Soviet Russia after Stalin.
When Russia Learned to Read
Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917
Av Jeffrey Brooks, Jeffrey Brooks
Häftad, 2003
348 kr
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Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's greatest writers. Within a few decades, a ragtag assembly of semi-educated authors, publishers and …
Aesthetics of Alienation
Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories
Inbunden, 2005
1044 kr
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A leading expert in Soviet literature reveals how Socialist Realism arose from within the ranks of the literati; This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist Realism was mainly the creation of party leaders and was imposed from above on the literati who lived and worked under the …
Selected Essays
Av Viacheslav Ivanov, Michael Wachtel m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
313 kr
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A poet, critic and theoretician during the Silver Age of Russian poetry, at the turn of the 20th century, Viacheslav Ivanov was dubbed ""Viacheslav the Magnificent"" by his contemporaries for his erudition, sumptuous and elusive poetry and brilliant essays. He provided Russian Symbolism with …
Trace of Judaism
Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
313 kr
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Linking new readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, ""The Trace of Judaism"" asks: how does Judaism haunt Russian literature; in what ways is Levinas' ethics as 'Russian' as it is arguably 'Jewish'; and, more …
Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks
Inbunden, 2009
926 kr
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This book provides an introduction to Sergei Dovlatov (1941-90) that is closely attentive to the details of his life and work, their place in the history of Soviet society and literature, and of emigre culture during this turbulent period. A journalist, newspaper editor, and prose writer, Dovlatov …
Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin
Av Ksana Blank
Häftad, 2010
1076 kr
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In Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin, Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky’s dialectics—distinct from Hegelian dialectics—as a philosophy of “compatible contradictions.” Expanding on the …
Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop
Inbunden, 2012
1582 kr
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Reveals the rich cultural exchange among writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish in the Ukrainian territories, from Nikolai Gogol’s 1829 The Sorochintsy Fair to Isaac Babel’s stories about the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian countryside in 1929.
Novel in the Age of Disintegration
Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s
Av Kate Holland
Inbunden, 2013
598 kr
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Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland brings historical context to bear, showing that Dostoevsky wanted to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting …
