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The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)—poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin—this book brings overdue attention to an important …
Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking …
Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and …
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland brings …
Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word - both the expressive and communicative capacities of language - in Russian literature and culture. …
Though among the most prominent writers in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century, Evgeniia Tur (1815-92) and V. Krestovskii (18207-89) are now little known. By looking in depth at …
Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological cliches of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. This text examines literary Sots-art on several …
Russian life and literature of the nineteenth century abounded with scenes of gambling - nowhere more prominently than in the lives and work of three of Russia's greatest writers: …
A literary-historical study of art-song enterprises in Russia's Golden Age. The book investigates the relationship between between poets and composers in Russia between 1800 and …
Sofya Khagi's Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular …