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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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Tolstoy and His Problems
Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group …
The Stony Dance
Widely considered the greatest Russian modernist novel, Andrei Bely's Petersburg has until now eluded the critical attention that a book of its caliber merits. In The Stony Dance, …
About Chekhov
Seven years after the death of Anton Chekhov, his sister, Maria, wrote to a friend, ""You asked for someone who could write a biography of my deceased brother. If you recall, I …
The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934
In this text, Irina Gutkin brings together work on the subject of Soviet aesthetic ideology to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical world view that marked …
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 …