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Author | : Yelena Zotova |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1793605599 |
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In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia’s volatile axiological hierarchy. Industriousness and austerity, inferior to playful genius in Pushkin’s “Mozart and Salieri,” became virtues, while the intrinsic value of nonutilitarian art was officially nullified by the Bolshevik state.Consequently, a new literary type emerged, and envy, described as “wingless desire” by Russia’s chief poet Alexander Pushkin, obtained new ownership as the envied became the envier. Superimposing twentieth-century theories of envy onto Mikhail Bakhtin’s “Author and Hero in the Aesthetic Activity” (1923), Zotova proposes that Salieri’s envy could be the wingless embryo of the Bakhtinian authorship.
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 | : Gary Rosenshield |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2023-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1666925233 |
Download Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent exile to St. Helena, in much of Europe a re-evaluation of Napoleon's person, stature, and historical significance occurred, as thinkers and writers witnessed the gradual reestablishment of repressive regimes throughout Europe. This re-evaluation in Russia would have to wait until Napoleon's death in 1821, but when it came to pass, it continued to occupy the imagination of Russia's greatest writers for over 130 years. Although Napoleon's invasion of Russia and subsequent defeat had a profound effect on Russian culture and Russian history, for Russian writers what was most important was the universal significance of Napoleon’s desire for world conquest and the idea of unbridled ambition which he embodied. Russian writers saw this, for good or ill, as potentially determining the spiritual and moral fate of future generations. What is particularly fascinating is their attempt to confront each other about this idea in a creative dialogue, with each succeeding writer addressing himself and responding to his predecessor and predecessors.
Author | : Lonny Harrison |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498597998 |
Download Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth century through fruition in early Soviet society. This volume examines metaphors for revolution in the storm, flood, and harvest imagery ubiquitous in Russian literary works. At the same time, it considers the struggle to own the narrative of modernity, including Bolshevik weaponization of language and cultural policy that supported the use of terror and social purging. This uniquely cross-disciplinary study conducts a close reading of texts that use storm, flood, and agricultural metaphors in diverse ways to represent revolution, whether in anticipation and celebration of its ideals or in resistance to the same. A spotlight is given to the lives and works of authors who responded to Soviet authoritarianism by reclaiming the narrative of revolution in the name of personal freedom and restoration of humanist values. Hinging on the clashes of culture wars and class wars and residing at the intersection of ideas at the very core of the fight for modernity, this book provides a critical reading of authoritarian discourse and investigates rare examples of the counter narratives that thrived in spite of their suppression.
Author | : Nicole Svobodny |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2023-07-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793653542 |
Download Nijinsky's Feeling Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to "marking" a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement with verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Drawing on archival research, along with studies in psychology and philosophy, Svobodny emphasizes the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Nijinsky began his life-writing—a book he titled Feeling—the day after the Paris Peace Conference opened, and the same day he performed his "last dance." Nijinsky's Feeling Mind begins with the dancer on stage and concludes as he invites readers into his private room. Illuminating the structure, plot, medium, and mode of Feeling, this study calls on readers to grapple with a paradox: the more the dancer insists on his writing as a live performance, the more he points to the material object that entombs it.
Author | : Amy D. Ronner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793607826 |
Download Dostoevsky as Suicidologist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings of Dostoevsky’s major works, including Notes from The House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronner provides an exegesis of how Dostoevsky’s implicit awareness of fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic modes of self-destruction helped shape not only his philosophy, but also his craft as a writer. In this study, Ronner contributes to the field of suicidology by anatomizing both self-destructive behavior and suicidal ideation while offering ways to think about prevention. But most expansively, Ronner tackles the formidable task of forging a ligature between artistic creation and the pluripresent social fact of self-annihilation.
Author | : Babette Deutsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Modern Russian Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alexander Pushkin |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 144749394X |
Download Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology (1921) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This early anthology of Russian poetry was compiled and translated by Deutsch and Yermolinksy and was originally published in 1921. It provides a fascinating and absorbing collection of some of the work of Russia’s greatest poets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deutsch and Yermolinksy provide a comprehensive and informative look at the subject, making this work a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any literary historian, enthusiast of Russian poetry or newcomer to the genre. Poets featured include: Alexander Pushkin - Yevgeny Baratynsky - Alexey Koltzov - Mikhail Lermontov - Fyodor Tyutchev - Nikolai Nekrasov - Alexey K. Tolstoy - Apollon Maikov - Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth - Yakov Polonsky - Vladimir Solovyov - N. Minsky - Dmitry Merezhkovsky - Fyodor Sologub - Zinaida Hippius - Konstantin Balmont - Valery Brusov - Ivan Bunin - Vyacheslav Ivanov - Yurgis Baltrushaitis - Maximilian Voloshin - Mikhail Kuzmin - Georgy Chulkov - Alexander Blok - andrey Bely - Victor Hofman - Vasily Bashkin - Sergey Gorodetzky - Anna Akhmatova - Igor Severyanin - Nikolai Kluyev - Lubov Stolitza - Sergi Yesenin - Z. Shishova - Piotr Oreshin - Anatoly Marienhof. This vintage and rare text is being republished in a high quality, modern and affordable format, and comes complete with a new, specially-written concise biography.
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Publisher | : UM Libraries |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Download Quarterly Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
Download Political History and Culture of Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Scholarly articles dealing with political events in Russia up to 1991.