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A Writer's Diary
The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic …
Enemies from the East?
As cultural conflicts roil the world, the idea of a ""clash of civilizations"" has lately taken hold, with commentators from both East and West weighing the religious and political …
The Fabulous Future?
Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and …
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical …
Optical Play
Julia Bekman Chadaga’s ambitious study posits that glass - in its uses as a material and as captured in culture - is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from …
The Russian Memoir
Throughout the development of modern Russian society, the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable report-age, has maintained a popular and abiding …
Fabulous Future?
Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and …
Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature
Robert Louis Jackson, (the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University), is one of the most prominent American Slavists in the field today. His …
A Writer's Diary
The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic …
Esther Regina
Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the ""Book of Esther"" in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the …
Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
Ilya Vinitsky's Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia is the first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)-a poet, translator of German …
Nabokov’s Canon
Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have …