Cambridge University Press, 2004. — xviii, 391 p. — ISBN: 0-511-03851-8, 0-521-57280-0. A History of Women's Writing in Russia traces comprehensively the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 313 p. Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a 'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some chapters consider...
Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. — 1979. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0521296498; ISBN13: 978-0521296496. This study describes and evaluates the main trends in Soviet Russian prose and poetry since the death of Stalin in the light of the cultural, ideological, social and political developments of the past quarter-century. It relates the literary history...
Oxford University Press paperback 2001, 182 p. Introductions to Russian literature, like introductions to national literatures more generally, traditionally take three forms. One type is an outine of what is known as the ‘canon’, the lives and works of famous writers – Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, with a supporting cast of lesser figures from the nineteenth...
Routledge, London, 2001. — 282 p. — ISBN: 0-415-23365-8, 0-415-23366-6. The book is a collection of articles on the main chapters of the history of Russian literature, written by leading Western Slavists. The book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in Russian literature, its connections with the world literary process and the modern European view of it. The book...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 308 p. Russian literature arrived late on the European scene.Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked – and then conquered – the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 976 p. — ISBN 9780199663941, ASIN 0199663947. Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 976 p. — ISBN 9780199663941, ASIN 0199663947. Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 976 p. — ISBN 9780199663941, ASIN 0199663947. Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
München: Verlag Otto Sagner in Kommission. — 1989. — 158 p. — ISBN: 3-87690-374-2. Professor Kasack of the University of Cologne is, inter alia, the author and/or compiler of numerous publications on Russian literature. The present volume is a much expanded English version of his 1980 Die russische Literatur ¡945-1976 and its 1983 update Die russische Literatur 1945-1982. Like...
Routledge, 2011. — 224 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe). This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of...
Selected Essays by Marcus C. Levitt. Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009. — x + 437 p. — (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History). — ISBN: 978-1-934843-68-0. Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a...
Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Kasack. — München: Verlag Otto Sagner in Kommission, 1984. — 289 p. — (Arbeiten Und Texte Zur Slavistik. No 31). — ISBN 3-87690-211-8. It has in fact been recognized in Russian cultural circles for more than a Century that the aesthetic changes in a literature under the influence of censorship have a specific character. First in the spoken language of...
Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. — 467 p. Impressionism. Hylaea. Ego-Futurism and the Mezzanine of Poetry. Cubo-Futurism. The Years of Flowering. The Centrifuge. Decline.
Stanford: Stranford University Press, 1992. — 363 p. The Salvation Program. General Contexts. Nikolai Fyodorov. Vladimir Solovyov. Maksim Gorky. Fyodor Sologub. Aleksandr Blok. Nikolai Ognyov. Nikolai Zabolotsky. Two Parodies. Works Cited.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 663 p. This history presents in narrative form a survey of Russian literature from the beginnings to this decade, in sufficient but not overwhelming detail. Those who wish to pursue particular points in more depth will find guidance in the bibliography appended to the volume, which is also in effect an outline of the historiography of Russian...
Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2012. - 256 p. - (Acta Slavica Estonica II. Works on Russian and Slavic philology. Literary studies VIII.) - ISBN: 978-9949-32-202. Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent...
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press (Ars Rossika [sic]), 2011. — 310 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936235-50-6. In Creating the Empress , Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical...
Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. In this study, Ronen critically examines the term "Silver Age", which over the years has gained such wide currency among historians and connoisseurs of 20th century Russian culture. The author traces the origin and the controversial development of what he condemns as an influential misnomer. Ronen sets out to debunk the myth that...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Introduction: Engendering Byt in Soviet Culture. Documenting Women’s Byt during the Thaw and Stagnation: Natal’ia Baranskaia and I. Grekova. Perestroika and the Emergence of Women’s Prose: Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tat’iana Tolstaia, and. Women’s Anthologies. The Artistry of Everyday Life: Liudmila Ulitskaia, Svetlana Vasilenko, and...
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2015. — 247 p. — (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the 20th Century). — ISBN: 978-1-61811-260-6, ISBN: 978-1-61811-261-3. Julia Trubikhina is professor in the Language department at Hunter College, New York, NY. Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history...
Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2009. — 528 p. — ISBN: 9042025492; 9789042025493. The domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyze 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...
Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2008. — 191 p. — (Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian Literature and Theory). — ISBN: 978-0-8101-5208-3, 978-0-8101-2585-8. Introduction. Levinas and Russian Literature Idiots and Demons: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Perils “And I Most of All”: Levinas in The Brothers Karamazov Isaac Babel s Dirty Ethics Osip Mandelstam's...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan — 2009 — 220 p. — ISBN: 0230621856, 9780230621855. "Locating Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature" is a fascinating study that significantly contributes to contemporary re-examination of Russian émigré literature.Wakamiya carefully avoids hasty compartmentalization of the subjects of her research: she gives due attention to every single...
Translations by Marcus C. Levitt with Nicole Monnier and Daniel Schlaffy. Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press (Ars Rossica), 2014 ‒ xii + 406 p. ‒ ISBN: 978-1-61811-346-7 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-61811-357-3 (electronic). Academic Studies Press presents the translation of a collection of essays by Andrei Zorin (Andrei Leonidovich Zorin, born in Moscow in 1956,...
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