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Nabokov's Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov 9780691602424
RRP: $88.20$79.40A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a... -
Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence by Andrew Kahn 9780199654338
RRP: $134.40$133.20Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and... -
Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the "New" Russian Literature by Irina Reyfman 9780804718240
$171.82Vasilii Trediakovsky (1703-69) was one of the eighteenth century poets instrumental in creating a Russian literature based on West European models, yet a striking discrepancy exists between his obvious importance and his notoriously bad reputation among... -
Russian Literature, 1995-2002: On the Threshold of a New Millennium by Norman N. Shneidman 9780802086709
RRP: $69.30$61.01Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: $94.50$74.17Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment... -
Unconscious Structure in The Idiot: A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Dalton 9780691648149
$204.29Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of... -
Oblomov and his Creator: Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov by Milton Ehre 9780691645735
RRP: $228.90$178.10Goncharov's novels have been popular in Russia since their publication, and Oblomov, the central character of his most famous novel, has become the prototype of a fat and lazy man. Milton Ehre offers new interpretations of the complex personality of... -
Dostoevsky and the Novel by Michael Holquist 9780691638201
$170.02What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses on the formal aspects of Dostoevskian narrative. The author argues that the novel is a genre that constantly seeks its own identity: we... -
Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after Utopia by Edith W. Clowes 9780691636597
$204.29In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe,... -
Gogol's Dead Souls by James B. Woodward 9780691633213
$232.49Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery to critics as it was when it first appeared. James Woodward disputes the traditional view of Gogol's work, contending that it is not a... -
The First Encounter by Andrey Bely 9780691632537
$169.39First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the great achievements of Russian Modernism--is translated to English here. A poet, critic, philosopher, and novelist, Bely was a leading... -
Nabokov's Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov 9780691631905
$222.66A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his... -
Babel in Russian and Other Literatures and Topographies: The Tower, the State, and the Chaos of Language by Martin Meisel 9781498588379
RRP: $178.50$156.47This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples, in Russian literature and other topographies. The author pursues its linking of language, architecture, and society as well... -
Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances by Nicole Svobodny 9781793653536
RRP: $201.60$177.20Nijinsky'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... -
A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia by Katya Hokanson 9781487545604
RRP: $111.30$97.31A Woman's Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated... -
Die russische Diaspora in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert: Religioeses und kulturelles Leben by Adelbert Davids 9783631569320
RRP: $105.63$92.44Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen den Kreisen der russischen Emigration und der Kultur ihres jeweiligen Gastlandes im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts bilden einen Schwerpunkt der Forschungsarbeit der "Russian Diaspora Research Group". Deren erste... -
The Reluctant Modernist: Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914 by Roger Keys
$98.64Andrei Belyi (1880-1934) is generally regarded as the greatest and most influential prose-writer to emerge from the Symbolist movement in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. His early prose `symphonies' and novels are often compared with the... -
Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader's Guide by G. S. N. Luckyj
RRP: $33.58$29.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802060037Author G. S. N. LuckyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture by Paul Debreczeny
$163.09This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. The individual... -
The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture by Evgeny Dobrenko
$228.38This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997). The history of the literary... -
How the Soviet Man Was Unmade: Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity Under Stalin by Lilya Kaganovsky
$95.34In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of... -
Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters by David Patterson
$72.45In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent... -
Dostoevsky's Religion by Steven Cassedy
$123.10Any reader of Dostoevsky is immediately struck by the importance of religion within the world of his fiction. That said, it is very difficult to locate a coherent set of religious beliefs within Dostoevsky's works, and to argue that the writer embraced... -
Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views by Ladislav Matejka
RRP: $27.28$25.58Investigating the conceptualisation of structure and form within literature, the Russian Formalists affected both the creation of art during the 1920s and 1930s and the development of literary theory as a scientific discipline. Crucial to the... -
Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet by Stephanie Sandler
RRP: $155.40$136.19Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its seemingly purest form. Irreverent and... -
Beyond Realism: Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
$152.27Critical studies of Turgenev have tended to focus on his realistic portrayals of nineteenth-century Russian life and have therefore closely allied Turgenev with the dominant literary movement of that time, Realism. By contrast, this book reveals the... -
Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" by Rick McPeak
RRP: $54.58$47.23In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though... -
Milton and the Rise of Russian Satanism by Valentin Boss
RRP: $65.10$55.65No European Devil can claim so long or so political a connection with Russian culture as Milton's Satan. Russian poets came to know him before they heard of Dante, Marlowe, Tasso, or of the devils of the Baroque era. This may explain why Milton's... -
The First Encounter by Andrey Bely
RRP: $63.00$48.91First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the great achievements of Russian Modernism--is translated to English here. A poet, critic, philosopher, and novelist, Bely was a leading... -
The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author by Elena V. Baraban
RRP: $69.30$61.01The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty... -
Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape by Julie A. Buckler
RRP: $73.50$67.47Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What... -
Text counter Text: Rereadings in Russian Literary History by Alexander Zholkovsky
RRP: $67.20$59.24Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts-classical, modernist, and contemporary-as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts.Book InformationISBN... -
Checking out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors and Readers by Sharon Marie Carnicke 9781618113207
RRP: $44.08$42.29This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov - a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible imprint upon the world's theatre. Every page reveals the joys and difficulties of his short life, his comic... -
Solzhenitsyn by Georg Lukacs 9780850361438
RRP: $31.40$28.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture by Joanna Hubbs
RRP: $54.58$47.23A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural forceA ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine... -
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov
RRP: $60.88$59.96Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system within-and... -
Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders by Kevin M. F. Platt 9781501773709
RRP: $98.70$86.69Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced... -
Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times by Andrew D Kaufman 9781451644715
RRP: $33.60$21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451644715Author Andrew D KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destruction and the Creative Process by Amy D Ronner 9781793607836
RRP: $73.50$65.00In 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... -
Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen 9781618118158
RRP: $52.48$49.92Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the...