Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Based on original and archival research, muc...
Author: Timberlake, Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Reference Grammar of Russian describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian: the patterns of orthography, sounds, inflection, syntax, tense-aspect-mood, word order, and intonation....
Author: Frank, Joseph Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the di...
Author: Presto, Jenifer Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. D...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery and bold ...
Description: This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emp...
Author: Gorky, Maksim Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Go...
Author: Livers, Keith A. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship wi...
Author: Ruttenburg, Nancy Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution—figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Push...
Author: Matich, Olga Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death. They the...
Author: Maiorova, Olga Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As nationalism spread across nineteenth-century Europe, Russia's national identity remained murky: there was no clear distinction between the Russian nation and the expanding multiethnic empire that c...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a b...
Author: Boyd, Brian Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories ab...
Author: Cavanagh, Clare Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cavanagh traces Mandelstam's creation of tradition from his earliest lyrics to his last verses, written shortly before his arrest and subsequent death in a Stalinist camp. Her work shows how the poet,...
Author: Greene, Diana Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reinventing Romantic Poetry offers a new look at the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century. While celebrated poets such as Aleksandr Pushkin worked within a male-centered Romantic aesthetic...
Author: Parthe, Kathleen F. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, F...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While remaining accessible to an undergraduate and non-specialist readership, the ess...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a cent...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature" is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Mid...
Author: Bird, Robert Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Viacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), the central intellectual force in Russian modernism, achieved through his work an original synthesis of Christianity, Platonism, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsc...
Author: Rosenshield, Gary Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda...
Author: Foster, John Burt , Jr. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how th...
Author: Cavanagh, Clare Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Wa...
Author: Parthe, Kathleen F. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, F...
