Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
24 produkter
Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life
Mystery inside Enigma
Inbunden, 2016
3514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Russia is an enigmatic, mysterious country, situated between East and West not only spatially, but also mentally. Or so it is traditionally perceived in Western Europe and the Anglophone world at large. One of the distinctive features of Russian culture is its irrationalism, which revealed itself …
Tolstoi: Art and Influence
Av Joe Andrew
Inbunden, 2023
1887 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. …
Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968
Ideas in Flux
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, Socialist Europe experienced a brief yet intense period of intellectual ferment. Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 explores the shifting landscape of literature, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought in the wake of Stalinism …
Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
2101 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during …
Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture
Av Joe Andrew
Inbunden, 2024
2167 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume is a major contribution to the study of the life, work and standing of Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate and the best-known Russian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. This is the most significant book devoted to him in the last 25 years, and features work by many …
Stefan Javors’kyj's Panegyrics
1684–1691
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book presents the first edition of Polish and Latin works by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), the leading author of Ukrainian literature of his time. The book contains four panegyrics dedicated to the Ukrainian political and ecclesiastical leaders, Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Metropolitan Barlaam …
Stefan Javors’kyj's Sermons
1691-1698
Inbunden, 2025
1906 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This edition presents a selection of 15 sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century. His imagination, knowledge, and rhetorical skills made him one of the leading European writers of his time. For political reasons, his sermons remained in …
Vladimir Nabokov's Bilingual Poetry
The Mirror of Self-Translation
Inbunden, 2026
1906 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), author of such bestselling novels as Lolita and Pale Fire, was also an extraordinarily prolific poet, a poetry translator, and a self- translator. Yet, the intersection of these activities – Nabokov’s endeavour as a self- translator of poetry – remains largely …
Overcoming of History in War and Peace
Av Jeff Love
Häftad, 2004
2144 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Overcoming of History in “War and Peace” marks a radical departure from the critical tradition dominated by Sir Isaiah Berlin’s view that the novel is deeply divided against itself, a majestically flawed contest of brilliant art and clumsy thought. To the contrary, Jeff Love argues that the …
Breaking Ground
Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin
Häftad, 2006
2144 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Breaking Ground examines travel writing’s contribution to the development of a Russian national culture from roughly 1700 to 1850, as Russia struggled to define itself against Western Europe. Russian examples of literary travel writing began with imitative descriptions of grand tours abroad, but …
Montaging Pushkin
Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
Häftad, 2006
1844 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin’s legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways …
Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903
Av Joe Andrew
Häftad, 2007
1162 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The present volume has as its primary aim readings, from a feminist perspective, of a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the ‘woman question’ rose to the fore and reached its peak. All the works considered here were produced in, or hark back to, a fairly …
Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age
Häftad, 2007
1315 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For poets throughout the world Rome was the world. This is particularly true for Russian poets, owing to the anagrammatical relation of the words Rome and mir (Rome and world). The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. The …
Turgenev and Russian Culture
Essays to Honour Richard Peace
Av Joe Andrew
Häftad, 2008
2272 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The present volume has as its central aim a reassessment of the works of Ivan Turgenev for the twenty-first century. Against the background of a decline in interest in nineteenth-century literature the articles gathered here seek to argue that the period in general, and his work in particular, …
What the God-seekers found in Nietzsche
The Reception of Nietzsche’s Übermensch by the Philosophers of the Russian Religious Renaissance
Häftad, 2008
1631 kr
Lägg i varukorg
At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, a large and varied group of the Russian intelligentsia became fascinated by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose provocative ideas inspired many of them to overcome obsolete traditions and to create new values. Paradoxically, the German …
Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists
Ohrid, September 10-16, 2008. Literature
Häftad, 2008
1551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this volume of SSLP the contributions of Dutch scholars working in the field of Slavic literature and culture to the 14th International Congress of Slavists (Ohrid, Macedonia, September 10–16, 2008) are brought together. All of them except one (on the Polish poet Cyprian Norwid’s story Stigma), …
Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Häftad, 2008
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back “target readers”, young contemporary radicals, from Utilitarianism, nihilism, and Utopian Socialism. Dostoevsky framed the …
House in Russian Literature
A Mythopoetic Exploration
Inbunden, 2009
3029 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyse and interpret the most important realisations and tendencies of this thematic complex in the history of Russian literature. It is the first systematic book-length …
(Un)masking Bruno Schulz
New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations
Inbunden, 2009
3075 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Whatever critical scalpel one selects for dissecting the literary works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), there will always be a certain degree of textual resistance which cannot be broken. Or in other words, taking off one of Schulz’s many masks, one will probably never avoid the impression that a new …
Shoreless Bridges
South East European Writing in Diaspora
Häftad, 2010
1106 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Exiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous dimensions – in short a writing that challenges boundaries of genre, monolingualism and national …
Turgenev
Art, Ideology and Legacy
Av Robert Reid
Häftad, 2010
2158 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Turgenev is in many ways the most enigmatic of the great nineteenth-century Russian writers. A realist, he was nevertheless drawn towards symbolism and the supernatural in his later career. Renowned for his authentic depictions of Russian life, he spent long periods in Europe and was more Western …
Aspects of Dostoevskii
Art, Ethics and Faith
Av Robert Reid
Häftad, 2012
1930 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Perhaps more than any other nineteenth-century Russian writer, Dostoevskii’s continuing popularity rests on his contemporary relevance. The prophetic streak in his creativity gives him the same lasting appeal as dystopian novelists such as Zamiatin and Orwell whom he influenced and whose ethical …
Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture
Häftad, 2015
2136 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the representation of dogs in Russian discourse since the nineteenth century. Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems, in literature, film and other cultural productions, it shows that the dog as a political …
Pure, Strong and Sexless
The Peasant Woman’s Body and Gleb Uspensky
Häftad, 2006
1957 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Pure, Strong and Sexless explores the representation of gender and sexuality of peasant women in turn of the century Russian culture through the writings of populist writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky’s numerous works address a range of issues related to sexuality, including infanticide, abortion, …
