Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Robert Louis Jackson has long been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the foremost Dostoevsky scholars in the world. Freedom and Respo... Lees meer

The Bilingual Muse

Adrian Wanner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Analyses the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions ... Lees meer

Nabokov's Canon

Marijeta Bozovic

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary , along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late E... Lees meer

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory

Jessica Merrill

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Russian Formalism is widely considered the foundation of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the movement in light of the current commitment... Lees meer

Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky

Alexander Burry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Since their publication, the works of Dostoevsky have provided rich fodder for adaptations to opera, film, and drama. While Dostoevsky gave his blessi... Lees meer

Selected Stories

Alexander Veltman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• A.F. Veltman (1800-1870), a prolific but largely forgotten nineteenth-century Russian writer, played a significant role in the development of Russian ... Lees meer

Everything Has Already Been Written

Gerald Janecek

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Innovative poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figures of Russia in the 1980s and... Lees meer

Prologue

Nikolai Chernyshevsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-89) is most famous as the author of What is To Be Done? (1863), one of the most inspirational texts in the Russian revolut... Lees meer

Tolstoy's Phoenix

George R Clay

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analyzing the structure of War and Peace, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and jargon-free ana... Lees meer

Economies of Feeling

Jillian Porter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradit... Lees meer

Selected Stories

Alexander Veltman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• A.F. Veltman (1800-1870), a prolific but largely forgotten nineteenth-century Russian writer, played a significant role in the development of Russian ... Lees meer

The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin

William Mills III Todd

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• In the field of Russian literary studies, there is surprisingly little discussion of independent genres and their effect on the creativity of an era. ... Lees meer

Dostoevsky's Secrets

Carol Apollonio

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• 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... Lees meer

Nabokov's Canon

Marijeta Bozovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary , along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late E... Lees meer

Russian Subjects

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Although Russia's major Golden Age writers have had numerous book-length studies devoted to them by distinguished American slavists, no Western collec... Lees meer

The Gift of Active Empathy

Alina Wyman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of... Lees meer

Prodigal Son

John Givens

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• A wildly prolific director, actor, and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post... Lees meer

Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism

Vladimir Golstein

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• This is the first study of Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) that attempts to integrate the in-depth interpretations of all his major texts--... Lees meer

Nikolai Klyuev

Michael Makin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nikolai Klyuev: Time and Text, Place and Poe t is the first book in English to examine this enigmatic poet's life and work. Klyuev (1884-1937) is an i... Lees meer

Art in Doubt

Tatyana Gershkovich

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition-- that approaching a text skeptically is e... Lees meer

Chernyshevskii's What Is to Be Done

Andrew Drozd

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Andrew M. Drozd reexamines the misunderstood Russian novel, insisting it was misread by both detractors (who dismissed it as propaganda) and admirers ... Lees meer

Only Among Women

Anne Eakin Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Only Among Women reveals how the idea of a community of women as a social sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest origin... Lees meer

The Writer in Petrograd and the House of Arts

Martha Weitzel Hickey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Founded by Maksim Gorky and Kornei Chukovsky in 1919 and disbanded in 1922, the Petrograd House of Arts occupied a crucial moment in Russia's cultural... Lees meer

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self

Yuri Corrigan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Dostoevsky was hostile to the notion of individual autonomy, and yet, throughout his life and work, he vigorously advocated the freedom and inviolabil... Lees meer