This book posits that Leo Tolstoy’s and Vladimir Nabokov’s seemingly antithetical aesthetics stem from the same fear—that one’s experience of the world might be entirely private and impossible to share through art. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149250)
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s “show trials,” the public prosecutions in Moscow’s Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to obscure the relationship betwe...Loe edasi...
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s “show trials,” the public prosecutions in Moscow’s Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to obscure the relationship betwe...Loe edasi...
A provocative exploration of the cultivation of weak subjectivity in late Soviet fiction as both an aesthetic strategy and an ethical code-- Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism is a provocative exploratio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810148161)
Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of approaching literary fiction, arriving at weakness as a crucial principle of narrative an...Loe edasi...
Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810147676)
Shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right-- How modernist interartistic experimentation and the pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810141247)
The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts by Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsk...Loe edasi...
An in-depth study of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian poems into “new originals” in English offers a radical reappraisal of these works and of the project of translation itself. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810145993)
An in-depth study of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian poems into “new originals” in English offers a radical reappraisal of these works and of the project of translation itself. ...Loe edasi...
Challenging, revising, and expanding on Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Lynn Ellen Patyk demonstrates that provocation drives Dostoevsky’s poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot con...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810145733)
Challenging, revising, and expanding on Bakhtins Problems of Dostoevskys Poetics, Lynn Ellen Patyk demonstrates that provocation drives Dostoevskys poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and c...Loe edasi...
This book posits that Leo Tolstoy’s and Vladimir Nabokov’s seemingly antithetical aesthetics stem from the same fear—that one’s experience of the world might be entirely private and impossible to share through art. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810145542)
Leo Tolstoys and Vladimir Nabokovs radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition-that approaching a text skeptically is easy, but trusting it is hard Two figures central to the Russian literary tradition-Tolstoy, the moral...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810144910)
Russian Formalism is considered the foundational movement of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the school given the current commitment within literary studies to rethink the concept of literary form in cultural-historical terms--...Loe edasi...
Russian Formalism is considered the foundational movement of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the school given the current commitment within literary studies to rethink the concept of literary form in cultural-historical terms....Loe edasi...
Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict between writers and lawyers as a competition for cultural authority. The L...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810144941)
Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict between writers and lawyers as a competition for cultural authority-- The Lette...Loe edasi...
Anna Schur incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky’s thinking was shaped not only by his Christian ethics but also by the debates on punishment theory and practice unfolding during his...Loe edasi...
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 shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means...Loe edasi...
In this study of the work of Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, author Dana Dragunoiu (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada) argues for the centrality of Nabokov’s belief in the freedom of the will in his thinking about ethics and moral ph...Loe edasi...
