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  • - Enlightener of Russia
    av W. Gareth Jones
    466,-

    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 Study of the Thought of T. N. Granovsky, V. P. Botkin, P. V. Annenkov, A. V. Druzhinin, and K. D. Kavelin
    av Derek Offord
    466,-

    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.

  • - The Writer as Hero
    av J. A. E. Curtis
    536,-

    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.

  • av Diane Oenning Thompson
    551,-

    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.

  • - A Russian Symbolist's Perception of Dante
    av Pamela Davidson
    466,-

    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.

  • - A Reading of his Fiction
    av Frank Friedeberg Seeley
    551,-

    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 Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958
    av Edith Rogovin Frankel
    460,-

    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.

  • - The Ecology of Inspiration
    av Ellen (Princeton University Chances
    551,-

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

  • av Rachel Polonsky
    491 - 1 356,-

    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.

  • - Turgenev to Pasternak
    av Richard Freeborn
    625,-

    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.

  • - God and the Exiled Author
    av Ruth (University of London) Coates
    595 - 1 356,-

    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 Critical Study
    av Raymond Cooke
    486 - 1 551,-

    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.

  • av Jacques Catteau
    550 - 1 162,-

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

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    1 625,-

    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.

  • - Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy
    av Paris) Layton & Susan (Institut d'Etudes Slaves
    1 954,-

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

  • - Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765
    av Faith Wigzell
    625 - 1 342,-

    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.

  • - Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose
    av Gitta Hammarberg
    551 - 1 551,-

    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.

  • - Uncertainties of Spirit
    av Thomas Seifrid
    595 - 1 551,-

    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.

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