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  • - Turgenev to Pasternak
    av Richard Freeborn
    608,-

    Professor Freeborn's book is an attempt to identify and define the evolution of a particular kind of novel in Russian and Soviet literature: the revolutionary novel. This genre is a uniquely Russian phenomenon and one that is of central importance in Russian literature.

  • av J. D. Elsworth
    465,-

    Audrey Bely was one of the most innovative prose writers in Russian in the twentieth century. This book traces the development of his technique as a novelist from the early experimental Symphonies (1902-8) to the last novel, Masks, published in 1932. In the first two chapters of the book, Dr Elsworth explores Bely's theoretical writings on the aesthetic theory of Symbolism, and his association, after 1912, with the doctrines of Rudolf Steiner. Bely regarded art as an active force for the transformation of the human personality and the resolution of the crisis that he diagnosed in the culture of his time. Both the subject matter and the stylistic peculiarities of his novels have their origin in this particular philosophy of culture, and it is in this context that the novels are examined in the second half of the book. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in Bely and the wider subject of Russian Symbolist doctrine and practice.

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    1 231,-

    In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, particularly the visual arts. This collection of essays by leading British, American and Russian scholars, first published in 2000, draws on a rich variety of material to demonstrate the creative power of Russian culture 'on the boundaries' between genres.

  • - New Perspectives
     
    1 426,-

    This 1996 collection of fascinating essays by leading western and Russian specialists gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia.

  • - Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy
    av Efraim Sicher
    491 - 1 413,-

    This study shows how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook, and social or ideological pressures.

  • - A Genre Study
    av Karen L. (University of Virginia) Ryan-Hayes
    491 - 1 413,-

    This is a 1996 study of the extraordinary diversity and range of satirical writing in Russian literature. Through the close analysis of seminal satirical texts written by five Russian and emigre authors in the 1970s and 1980s, Karen Ryan-Hayes demonstrates that formal and thematic parody is pervasive.

  • - Ally and Adversary
     
    1 698,-

    This pioneering 1994 study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime.

  • - Play for Mortal Stakes
    av Massachusetts) Goldstein & Darra (Williams College
    491 - 1 477,-

    Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote both experimental and classical poetry. This book, first published in 1994, was the first critical biography of Zabolotsky to appear in English.

  • - Uncertainties of Spirit
    av Thomas Seifrid
    582 - 1 413,-

    This is a 1992 study in English of Andrei Platonov, a writer who belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes Solov'ev, Bakhtin and Pasternak. The book investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery and the use of language in his prose.

  • - Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose
    av Gitta Hammarberg
    543 - 1 413,-

    Karamzin was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century Sentimentalist literature. In this study, Gitta Hammarberg makes use of advances in literary theory (particularly Bakhtin-school theory) in order to develop a theory of Sentimentalist literature. She applies this to Karamzin's prose fiction, paying particular attention to the role of the author-reader.

  • - Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765
    av Faith Wigzell
    608 - 1 231,-

    This is the first full-length study of the huge cultural impact of fortune-telling in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. It discusses the links between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture the particular role of women, and discusses why fortune-telling is still a powerful force in Russian.

  • - Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy
    av Paris) Layton & Susan (Institut d'Etudes Slaves
    1 763,-

    The first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building.

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    1 477,-

    Originally published in 1998, this was the first work to examine the extraordinary history of literary journals in imperial Russia. Essays by leading scholars analyse the social forces shaping literary journals, the major journals and journalists of the period, and the factors that contributed to their success.

  • av Jacques Catteau
    556 - 1 162,-

    This book is an original and detailed attempt to re-examine Dostoyevsky the artist.

  • - A Critical Study
    av Raymond Cooke
    491 - 1 413,-

    Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery. This book provides a broad survey of his work. Dr Cooke's aim is to be both informative and interpretative by mapping out the contours of Khlebnikov's still largely uncharted poetic world.

  • - God and the Exiled Author
    av Ruth (University of London) Coates
    582 - 1 244,-

    This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work.

  • - A Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958
    av Edith Rogovin Frankel
    465,-

    Originally published in 1981, this book is an examination of the politics of literary publishing in the Soviet Union, and in particular during the period after Stalin's death, in the 1950s. Dr Frankel focuses on the leading literary journal of the 1950s, Novy Mir, between whose covers so much important literary work first appeared.

  • av Rachel Polonsky
    491 - 1 244,-

    This1998 book is a study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism focuses particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century.

  • - The Ecology of Inspiration
    av Ellen (Princeton University Chances
    543,-

    The first book-length study of Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers.

  • - Evolution of a Writer
    av Linda Hart Scatton
    465,-

    Dr Scatton explores the critical and political reception of a complex artist in a society where the purpose of art was to serve the state. Her book sheds new light on questions of literary politics in totalitarian societies, as well as bringing English-speaking readers a taste of a most original writer.

  • - A Reading of his Fiction
    av Frank Friedeberg Seeley
    543,-

    This comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction challenges traditional assumptions of both Eastern and Western critics. It focuses principally on the complexity and subtlety of Turgenev's portrayal of the psychology of his characters. The book is designed to be accessible not only to Slavists, but to other literary scholars.

  • - A Russian Symbolist's Perception of Dante
    av Pamela Davidson
    465,-

    Pamela Davidson explores Ivanov's poetic method, relating his art to his central beliefs and considering the ways in which he attempted to embody these ideas in his own life. She focuses on Ivanov's interpretation of Dante and in so doing, opens up fresh perspectives on the wider question of Russia's relation to the Western cultural tradition and Catholicism.

  • av Diane Oenning Thompson
    543,-

    Diane Thompson's study focuses on the meaning and poetic function of memory in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and seeks to show how Dostoevsky used cultural memory to create a synthesis between his Christian ideal and art. Memory is considered not only as a theme or subject, but also as a principle of artistic composition.

  • - The Writer as Hero
    av J. A. E. Curtis
    556,-

    This book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel which has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece.

  • - A Study of the Thought of T. N. Granovsky, V. P. Botkin, P. V. Annenkov, A. V. Druzhinin, and K. D. Kavelin
    av Derek Offord
    465,-

    This book studies the work of five Russian liberal thinkers who were active in the period 1840-60 against the general background of Russian history, literature and thought in that period. All five thinkers played an important part in the flowering of Russian letters in the 1840s, and were involved in the attempt of the intelligentsia.

  • - Enlightener of Russia
    av W. Gareth Jones
    465,-

    This book is a Western study of Novikov's complete career and it shows how he responded to Catherine's enlightened despotism in cultural matters and why their ways eventually parted. Novikov is viewed here not only as a founding father of the Russian intelligentsia, but as a representative of the general European Enlightenment.

  • - A Critical Study of the Novels
    av David Rampton
    491,-

    A provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of twentieth-century literature.

  • - The Woman, her World, and her Poetry
    av Simon Karlinsky
    556,-

    This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost authorities on her work. It draws on a profusion of recent documentation and research, some of it hitherto unpublished, and encompasses the whole course of her life.

  • - An Examination of the Writings of N. V. Gogol and their Place in the Russian Literary Tradition
    av Richard Peace
    556,-

    Professor Peace argues that Gogol has, as a writer, close affinities with the Russian Middle Ages and that his ambiguous position in the great humanist tradition of nineteenth-century Russian literature springs from his attempts to come to terms with the cultural impact of Sentimentalism, and its later development Romanticism.

  • - Zamyatin, Pil'nyak, and Bulgakov
    av T. R. N. Edwards
    465,-

    The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers, including the three important Soviet writers considered by Dr Edwards in this book.

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