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Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I by Jillian Porter 9780810135444
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $77.76Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic... -
A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia by Katya Hokanson 9781487545604
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $98.07A 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: $105.63Booksplease Price: $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... -
When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 by Jeffrey Brooks 9780810118973
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $58.38Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's greatest writers. Within a few decades, a ragtag assembly... -
Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader's Guide by G. S. N. Luckyj
Booksplease Price: $39.98Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: $166.38This 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... -
Zhivago's Secret Journey by Paolo Mancosu
RRP: $66.15Booksplease Price: $43.26Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends... -
The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism by Jonathan Stone
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $78.75The Institutions of Russian Modernism illuminates the key role of Symbolism as the earliest form of modernism in Russia, emerging seemingly ex nihilo at the end of the nineteenth century. Combining book history, periodical studies, and reception theory,... -
Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora by Adrian Wanner
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $152.54Out of Russia is the first scholarly work to focus on a group of writers who, over the past decade, have formed a distinct phenomenon: immigrants with cultural and linguistic roots in Russia who have chosen to write in the language of their adopted... -
Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky by Ms. Susanne Fusso
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $50.99Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. By looking at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's... -
Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness by Catharine Nepomnyashchy
RRP: $186.90Booksplease Price: $173.82Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a... -
The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture by Evgeny Dobrenko
Booksplease Price: $228.61This 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... -
Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture by Jenny Kaminer
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $87.86In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the... -
Essays on Gogo1 by Fusso.
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $124.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810110090Author Fusso.Format HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 600g -
Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shuksin in Soviet Russian Culture by John Givens
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $153.76A prolific director, actor and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This study of Shukshin and his work is therefore a portrait of the culture of Soviet Russia... -
Tolstoy v. 3; 1894-1910: Plays by L.N. Tolstoy
RRP: $161.70Booksplease Price: $146.52Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. This text presents the third and final volume of the complete collection of Tolstoy's plays, translated into English. Volume Three contains plays written during the years... -
Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence by Ann Komaromi
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $78.46Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among the most acclaimed authors of samizdat, the literature that was self-published in the former Soviet Union in order to evade censorship and prosecution. In Uncensored, Ann Komaromi uses their... -
How the Soviet Man Was Unmade: Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity Under Stalin by Lilya Kaganovsky
Booksplease Price: $107.52In 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... -
Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism by Eric Laursen
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.12Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground. Instead, key... -
Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism by Rebecca Jane Stanton
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $87.86In what marks an exciting new critical direction, Rebecca Stanton contends that the city of Odessa-as a canonical literary image and as a kaleidoscopic cultural milieu-shaped the narrative strategies developed by Isaac Babel and his contemporaries of the... -
Nabokov Upside Down by Brian Boyd
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $69.55Nabokov Upside Down brings together essays that explicitly diverge from conventional topics and points of reference when interpreting a writer whose influence on contemporary literature is unrivaled. Scholars from around the world here read Nabokov in... -
The Life and Works of Fedor Abramov by David C. Gillespie
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $143.05Fedor Aleksandrovich Abramov (1920-83) was one of the leading representatives of the Russian village prose movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In this work, scholars from the United States and abroad draw on Abramov's works, his diaries, and his private... -
Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self by Lonny Harrison
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $154.43Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky's stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works. In this interdisciplinary... -
Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison by Steven Shankman
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $68.42In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These... -
Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters by David Patterson
Booksplease Price: $74.87In 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... -
Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture by Julia Bekman Chadaga
RRP: $186.90Booksplease Price: $171.05Julia Bekman Chadaga's ambitious study posits that glass - in its uses as a material and as captured in culture - is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century onward. From the contemporary perspective, it is... -
Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground by Elizabeth A. Blake
RRP: $205.80Booksplease Price: $187.49While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake's ambitious and learned Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground fills this glaring omission in the scholarship... -
The Myth of A.S.Pushkin in Russia's Silver Age: M.O.Gershenzon, Pushkinist by Brian J. Horowitz
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $124.13Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon, philosopher, journalist, and scholar, was one of the most original and eccentric Pushkinists of Russia's Silver Age. His eclectic critical judgment was highly esteemed by his generation's best poets and critics, and many of... -
Dostoevsky's Religion by Steven Cassedy
Booksplease Price: $125.79Any 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... -
Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky: Transposing Novels in Opera, Film and Drama by Alexander Burry
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.62Argues that twentieth-century adaptations of four of Dostoevsky's works - Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler, Leos Janacek's opera From the Dead House, Akira Kurosawa's film The Idiot, and Adrzej Wajda's drama The Devils - bring to light under... -
Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks by Jekaterina Young
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $135.85This book provides an introduction to Sergei Dovlatov (1941-90) that is closely attentive to the details of his life and work, their place in the history of Soviet society and literature, and of emigre culture during this turbulent period. A journalist,... -
How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks by Irina Reyfman
Booksplease Price: $47.54In the eighteenth century, as modern forms of literature began to emerge in Russia, most of the writers producing it were members of the nobility. But their literary pursuits competed with strictly enforced obligations to imperial state service. Unique... -
Polinka Saks ; and, the Story of Aleksei Dmitrich by A. V Druzhinin
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $106.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810110526Author A. V DruzhininFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 430g -
Nabokov's Canon: From Onegin to Ada by Marijeta Bozovic
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $78.20Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright... -
Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet by Stephanie Sandler
RRP: $155.40Booksplease Price: $139.34Two 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 polemical... -
Beyond Realism: Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Booksplease Price: $155.61Critical 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... -
Dostoevsky and the Novel by Michael Holquist
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.17What 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... -
Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study by Janko Lavrin
Booksplease Price: $210.65This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often... -
Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" by Rick McPeak
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $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... -
Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture by Joseph Frank
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $84.21Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also...