Søkt på: Serie Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
totalt 92 treff
The Trace of Judaism
The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. ""The Trace of Judaism"" addresses this …
The Positive Hero in Russian Literature
In this text, Rufus Mathewson, Jr. discusses Russian literature and demonstrates how the battles over the positive hero reappeared with dramatic clarity in the dissident literary …
Aesthetics of Alienation
A leading expert in Soviet literature reveals how Socialist Realism arose from within the ranks of the literati; This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist …
Dimitry's Shade
In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the …
The Russian Memoir
The essays in this volume seek to appreciate the literary construction of the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable reportage, and explore its …
A Plot of Her Own
Neither a discussion of literary works written by women nor a survey of female images in male-authored texts, this work can be said to be revisionist in several senses. It takes …
The Politics of Reception
This is a study of the politicised critical responses to a popular Russian author by both Russian and Western critics. Mikhail Zoshchenko was one of the most popular and …
Prodigal Son
A prolific director, actor and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This study of …
Silence and the Rest
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. …
Finding the Middle Ground
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 …
Endquote
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 …