Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. — 399 p. Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world. Informed perspectives on the surprisingly long and incredibly rich tradition of...
Middletown: Wesleyan, 2013. — 219 p. Science fiction emerged in Russia considerably earlier than its English version and instantly became the hallmark of Russian modernity. We Modern People investigates why science fiction appeared here, on the margins of Europe, before the genre had even been named, and what it meant for people who lived under conditions that Leon Trotsky...
Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 507 p. Origins and infancy School and Scriabin Revolution und Berlin Youth’s impressions, literature and, music Literature, love and creativity Philosophy in Moscow and Marburg A literary launch Wartime in the Urals and Over the Barriers Quiet Hills and revolution Civil war activities Berlin interlude Malady sublime and the...
İstanbul: Tekin Yayınevi, 2012. — 271 p. Behramoglu Ataol. Research on Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries (in Turkish) İçindekiler: XIX. Yüzyıl. XX. Yüzyıl. Çağdaş Rus Şiiri. Rusçadan Türkçeye Türkçeden Rusçaya. Bu kitap A. Behramoğlu'nun yaklaşık kırk yıllık bir sürede Rus edebiyatı üzerine yazılarını, ülke içinde ve dışında konferans ve sempozyum sunumlarını...
München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1982 — 241 c. — ISBN: 3-87690-223-1. The present work attempts to provide a comprehensive, although by no means exhaustive, monographic study of the life and work of Gajto Gazdanov. It is intended not only for the specialist in Russian emigre literature but also for the general reader interested in Russian or contemporary or emigre literatures....
Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0-299-17334-8. This book is an investigation into these rigorous patterns of thought and form that both held Tsvetaeva in their thrall and liberated her creative imagination. Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva; 8 October 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. Preface page Bely's theory of Symbolism Bely and anthroposophy The Silver Dove Petersburg Kotik Letayev The Baptized Chinaman Notes of an Eccentric Moscow Masks
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs, 1978. — 192 p. Victor Erlich. Introduction: Categories of Passion. Yury Lotman. Language and Reality in the Early Pasternak. Yury Tynyanov. Words and Things in Pasternak. Isaiah Berlin. The Energy of Pasternak. Michel Aucouturier. The Metonymous Hero or the Beginnings of Pasternak the Novelist. Nils Ake Nilsson. Life as Ecstasy...
Pantheon, 2014. — 368 p. Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. — XII, 237 p. — ISBN: 0-691-01456-6. Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also produced articles, introductions, and...
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1992. — 291 p. — (Series in Russian Literature and Theory). — ISBN: 0-8101-1009-1. These fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in particular, focusing on specific works, Gogol's own character, and the various approaches to aesthetic,...
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1994. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 9051836694; ISBN13: 978-9051836691. This book is concerned with the literary development of the narrative category of space in Russian literature from Romanticism until Modernism. It consists of two parts. The theoretical introduction renders a survey of some major 20-th century theories on literary development in the...
Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1994. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 9051836694; ISBN13: 978-9051836691. This book is concerned with the literary development of the narrative category of space in Russian literature from Romanticism until Modernism. It consists of two parts. The theoretical introduction renders a survey of some major 20-th century theories on literary development in the...
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1988. — 306 p. — ISBN: 0-88233-804-8. Zamyatin's anti-Uponian novel We is one of the great 20th-century Russian classics. Gary Kern has collected various interpretations of the work and added eight selections from little-known works by Zamyatin. Essays on We are by A. Voronsky, V. Shklovsky, M. Kuznetsov, O. Mikhailov, R. Gregg, O. Ulph, C. Proffer, R....
Recorded Books, LLC, 2006. — 97 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4281-1294-0. Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores this tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. Their works had an enormous impact on Russian understanding of the human...
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011. — 180 p. — ISBN 978-3-0351-0216-1. One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common metafictional strategies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — xxiii, 273 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-69438-9, 978-1-137-47785-9. True PDF A Russian modernist poet, Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932), gained wide acclaim in Russia after his release from Soviet censorship. Voloshin's religious and anti-totalitarian poems about Russia's and Crimea's history brought him an extraordinary popularity during the two crises of...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. — 215 p. — ISBN: 0-8122-7864-X. In the poetry of Anna Akhmatova the nineteenth-century myth of Petersburg, as the accursed, unreal city, is filtered through the vision of a poet born in Imperial Russia and destined to confront the terrors of Soviet rule. The city that emerges embodies loss and dislocation, continuity and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 212 p. Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he helped define the modern short story. Beginning with an engaging account of Chekhov's...
Random House, 2007. — 106 p. — ASIN: B000XUBCHW. To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She...
New York: The Universal Library, 1971. — 486 p. Family and Childhood Schiller and Ogarev University and "Circle” Schelling and Idealism Saint-Simon and Socialism Arrest and Exile Love and Religion The Quest for Reality Realism in Philosophy: Hegel Realism in Love: George Sand The Slavophiles and Nationalism Socialist and Liberal Westerners The Crucial Year — 1847 The Revolution...
Penguin, 2011. — 172 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846-14331-1. The work of Gogol — one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses — has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to make him out "the Russian...
Wien: Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien, 1982. — 200 p. — (Wiener slawistischer Almanach. Sonderbd 5.) The odd and brilliant works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedenskii were lost to both Russia and the West for some thirty years. It was the misfortune of these writers to be nurtured in a period of literary experiment that was cut off suddenly just as they were...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 1137596724; ISBN13: 978-1137596727 — (Studies in European Culture and History). This book examines a wide range of contemporary Russian writers whose work, after the demise of Communism, became more authoritative in debates on Russia’s character, destiny, and place in the world. Unique in his in-depth analysis of both...
Lublin: Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 1987. — 146 s. Teoria poematu klasycystycznego w rosyjskiej myśli teoretycznoliterackiej XVIII wieku Założenia estetyczno-filozoficzne oraz cechy: strukturalne poematów Michała Chieraskowa Poemat bohaterski Etap kształtowania się gatunku w twórczości Michała Chieraskowa Poemat religijno-filozoficzny Poemat baśniowo-rycerski Załżenia...
Il concetto di "letteratura della Slavia ortodossa", formulato anni fa per la prima volta dall'autore di questo volume, è ormai d'uso corrente nella slavistica internazionale. Si tratta di una visione storiografica che, a differenza di quelle di matrice romantica e patriottica, pone l'accento su tradizioni medievali e premoderne non limitate a singole aree "nazionali" quali la...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. — 619 p. Collected Works of Anna Akhmatova. The Wild Child Becomes a Poet: 1889-1909. Petersburg, Poetry, and the Cabaret: 1910-1914. The Twilight of Imperial Russia: 1914-1917. The Revolutionary Years: 1917-1922. The Great Experiment: 1922-1930. The Great Terror: 1930-1939. The War Years: 1939-1945. The Cold War Begins: 1946-1952. The Thaw:...
New York: Random House Press, 1978. — 382 p. Leonard Schapiro, one of the world’s most distinguished historians of the Russian past, has written the definitive biography of the enigmatic Ivan Turgenev. Based on new sources that have recently come to light in France and Russia, this work is a graceful and meticulous portrayal of the artist’s life — the personal and intellectual...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 — 292 p. — ISBN10: 052140522X; ISBN13: 978-0521405225. The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes such figures as Vladimir Solov'ev, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Boris Pasternak. This study investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery, and the use of language in his prose....
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009. — vi + 195 p. — (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History). — ISBN: 978-1-934843-57-4. Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a...
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2010. — 474 p. — ISBN10: 0817910247; ISBN13: 978-0817910242 This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960 — including more than illustrations and photos — is an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to the great writer's life and work. His letters are accomplished literary...
Twelve scholarly essays on the perception of Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov. Imprint: Anthem Press Paperback (also available in Hardback) ISBN: 9780857285744 Three Brief Biographies; I. Vasilii Rozanov; Rozanov on Chekhov: 'Overcoming Literature' and Extending Horizons; Kind and Quiet:...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. — 305 p. — ISBN: 0-299-06350-X. Belinskij's Idiosyncrasies as a Critic The Sources of Belinskij's Aesthetic Ideas Art and Objective Reality The Work of Art The Artist Belinskij's Heritage
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. — 170 p. Chronology. Chapter One. A Biographical Survey. Chapter Two. Poetry of the Prerevolutionary Period. Chapter Three. Poetry of the Revolutionary Period. Chapter Four. Poetry of the Postrevolutionary Period, Plays, and Work in Other Art Forms. Chapter Five. Critical Assessment. Selected Bibliography.
Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2003. — 264 s. — ISBN 978-8371716805. Wstęp. Tradycja retoryczna wstępu . Retoryczne exordium jako praforma wstepu literackiego. Teoria wstępu w podręcznikach retoryki. Metaliterackie wypowiedzi dotyczące wstępów. Aspekt retoryczny wstępów. Związki genetyczne listów dedykacyjnych z epistolografią . Teoria listu jako retoryka mowy...
Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Published 11th August 2010 by Routledge – 190 p. -Part 1 Life and context Overview Life, context and ideas Chekhov’a art and Worldview -Part 2 Plays and Productions Vaudevilles and one act plays SUICIDE AND SURVIVAL: Ivanov and The Seagull Space and Confinement: Uncle Vanya Work and Women; Three sisters Modernization and Change: the...
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