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Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts
This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian American novelist Vladimir …
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 …
Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
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 …
Pushkin on Literature
Pushkin on Literature approaches Pushkin's literary accomplishment from a unique perspective: it focuses on Pushkin the critic and on his passion-are enthusiasm, volatile …
The Organic Worldview of Nikolai Leskov
Although little studied in the West, Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831-95) is accorded a place among major nineteenth-century writers in his native Russia. Irmhild Christina …
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 Liberation of Tolstoy
This work, equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study, examines the dialogue of two great Russian writers. The dialogue between them includes passages from Tolstoy's …
Dostoevsky's Secrets
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a ""realist in a higher sense,"" it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches …
The Letters and the Law
The Letters and the Law explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian …
The Art of Writing Badly
The art of writing badly is a phrase the Russian writer Valentin Kataev coined to describe the work that came out of the mauvist movement in Russian literature - a style of writing …
Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground
While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake's ambitious and learned Dostoevsky …
Intersections and Transpositions
This collection serves as an introduction to the great variety of approaches being used by Slavicists and historians to situate music and literature in the Russian cultural …