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At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde
Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism
Av Lars Kleberg
Häftad, 2025
441 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
586 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
445 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 …
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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
377 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
1563 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
505 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 …
Essays on Karolina Pavlova
Av Susanne Fusso, Alexander Lehrman
Inbunden, 2001
1163 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.
Politics of Reception
Critical Constructions of Mikhail Zoshchenko
Inbunden, 1998
971 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 …
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 …
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.
When Russia Learned to Read
Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917
Av Jeffrey Brooks, Jeffrey Brooks
Häftad, 2003
345 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
1035 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 …
Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin
Av Ksana Blank
Häftad, 2010
1067 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 …
Uncensored
Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence
Av Ann Komaromi, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2015
470 kr
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Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among the most acclaimed authors of samizdat, the literature that was self-published in the former Soviet Union in order to evade censorship and prosecution. In Uncensored, Ann Komaromi uses their work to argue for a far more sophisticated …
Unorthodox Beauty
Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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Unorthodox Beauty shows how Russian poets of the early twentieth century consciously adapted Russian Orthodox culture in order to create a distinctly religious modernism. Martha M. F. Kelly contends that, beyond mere themes, these writersdeveloped an entire poetics that drew on liturgical …
Nabokov’s Canon
From Onegin to Ada
Av Marijeta Bozovic, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2016
505 kr
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Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered …
Nabokov's Canon
From Onegin to Ada
Av Marijeta Bozovic, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered …
Gift of Active Empathy
Scheler, Bakhtin, and Dostoevsky
Av Alina Wyman, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2016
505 kr
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This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin's well-known concept of the …
Gift of Active Empathy
Scheler, Bakhtin, and Dostoevsky
Av Alina Wyman, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin's well-known concept of the …
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy
Häftad, 2016
505 kr
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After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky’s relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with …
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky’s relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with …
Tolstoy and His Problems
Views from the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2018
505 kr
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Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences.In the broadest sense—with essays …
Tolstoy and His Problems
Views from the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2018
1563 kr
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Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences.In the broadest sense—with essays …
Everything Has Already Been Written
Moscow Conceptualist Poetry and Performance
Häftad, 2018
505 kr
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In this book, Gerald Janecek provides a comprehensive account of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and performance, arguably the most important development in the arts of the late Soviet period and yet one underappreciated in the West. Such innovative poets as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and …
Everything Has Already Been Written
Moscow Conceptualist Poetry and Performance
Inbunden, 2018
1563 kr
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In this book, Gerald Janecek provides a comprehensive account of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and performance, arguably the most important development in the arts of the late Soviet period and yet one underappreciated in the West. Such innovative poets as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and …
