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Author | : Irene Masing-Delic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor?kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between ?culture? and ?civilization? and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is ?barbaric.? Another stance advocates the synthesis of ?sense and sensibility? and the vision of ?Apollo? and ?Dionysus? creating a ?civilized culture? together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin E Malia |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674040481 |
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A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486110931 |
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DIVPolitical turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as an assassination, government intrigue, and betrayal force a young student to come to terms with accountability and human integrity. /div
Author | : Alexander Burry |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810127156 |
Download Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2001.
Author | : Dimitrios Kassis |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1527561291 |
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Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.
Author | : Carol Ueland |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2022-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793618305 |
Download Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2021-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes is a novel that exemplifies Conrad's disdain for Russia. The story follows the life of Razumov, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, during political upheaval in Russia.
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1406890413 |
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Author | : Dariusz Tołczyk |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253067103 |
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"The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and other atrocities - were treated in the West as a controversial topic. With the Cold War dichotomy of Western democracy versus Soviet communism deeply imprinted in our minds, we are not always aware that these crimes were very often questioned, dismissed, denied, sometimes rationalized, and even outright glorified in the Western world. Facing a choice of whom to believe -the survivors or Soviet propaganda- many Western opinion leaders chose in favor of Soviet propaganda. Even those who did not believe it behaved sometimes as if they did. Blissful Blindness explores Western reactions (and lack thereof) to Soviet crimes from the Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of Soviet communism in order to understand ideological, political, economic, cultural, personal, and other motivations behind this puzzling phenomenon of willful ignorance. But the significance of Dariusz Tolczyk's book reaches beyond its direct historical focus. Written for audiences not limited to scholars and specialists, this book not only opens one's eyes to rarely examined aspects of the twentieth century but also helps one see how astonishingly relevant this topic is in our contemporary world"--