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Author : Andrew Wachtel
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Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : UCAL:C2926209
Pages : 674 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (2 users)
Download The Russian Pseudo-autobiography and the Creation of Russian Childhood PDF Full or another Format written by Andrew Wachtel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John T. Zepper
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
ISBN 10 : 9781135838188
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (135 users)
Download Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989 PDF Full or another Format written by John T. Zepper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alun Munslow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0415301467
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (31 users)
Download Experiments in Rethinking History PDF Full or another Format written by Alun Munslow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative and experimental pieces of historical writing shows there are fascinating and important new ways of thinking and writing about the past.
Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : 9780804725941
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (84 users)
Download An Obsession with History PDF Full or another Format written by Andrew Baruch Wachtel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and non-fictional works on historical themes.
Author : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 081011187X
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (111 users)
Download The Life of Arseniev PDF Full or another Format written by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his émigré period. In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking as its source the version Bunin revised in 1952, and including an introduction and annotations by Andrew Baruch Wachtel.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02
ISBN 10 : 9781134260706
Pages : 1012 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (134 users)
Download Reference Guide to Russian Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Elizabeth Goodenough
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 0814324312
Pages : 331 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (324 users)
Download Infant Tongues PDF Full or another Format written by Elizabeth Goodenough and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the representation of children in literature from the Renaissance to the present. It covers texts written in English, French, German, Russian and Hebrew, and looks at the evolution of the child's voice and consciousness in adult and juvenile fiction, and in writing by children.
Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-08
ISBN 10 : 9780745654577
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (745 users)
Download Russian Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Andrew Baruch Wachtel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, are almost completely terra incognita, as are the complex prose experiments of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Andrei Belyi, and Andrei Platonov. Furthermore, those writers who have made an impact are generally known outside of the contexts in which they wrote and in which their work has been received. In this engaging book, Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky provide a comprehensive, conceptually challenging history of Russian literature, including prose, poetry and drama. Each of the ten chapters deals with a bounded time period from medieval Russia to the present. In a number of cases, chapters overlap chronologically, thereby allowing a given period to be seen in more than one context. To tell the story of each period, the authors provide an introductory essay touching on the highpoints of its development and then concentrate on one biography, one literary or cultural event, and one literary work, which serve as prisms through which the main outlines of a given period?s development can be discerned. Although the focus is on literature, individual works, lives and events are placed in broad historical context as well as in the framework of parallel developments in Russian art and music.
Author : Pamela Chester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0253210429
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (21 users)
Download Engendering Slavic Literatures PDF Full or another Format written by Pamela Chester and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works. Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.
Author : Andrew Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-13
ISBN 10 : 9780192549532
Pages : 860 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (192 users)
Download A History of Russian Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Andrew Kahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day.The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular bring out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time-range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.
Author : David R. Egan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106017647295
Pages : 311 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (32 users)
Download Leo Tolstoy PDF Full or another Format written by David R. Egan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quarter-century update of Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1978, authors David and Melinda Egan list the more than 1,200 books, essays, articles and doctoral dissertations written about the great Russian author from 1978 to 2003. The book provides a comprehensive list of English language studies of Tolstoy's life, art, thought and influence, by addressing his novels, the major components of his non-literary life, and his legacy to the world.
Author : Toby W. Clyman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0300067542
Pages : 393 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (67 users)
Download Russia Through Women's Eyes PDF Full or another Format written by Toby W. Clyman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiografieën van vrouwen over hun jonge jaren in tsaristisch Rusland.
Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Simply Charly
Release Date : 2017-07-27
ISBN 10 : 9781943657315
Pages : 143 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (943 users)
Download Simply Tolstoy PDF Full or another Format written by Donna Tussing Orwin and published by Simply Charly. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a little gem, the best introduction to Tolstoy I have ever encountered, and it is more than that. The most accomplished scholar will find important new insights, the sort that one immediately recognizes as both true and profound. Orwin brings Tolstoy to life as a person and as a writer, and she also shows beautifully how the two are linked. The discussions of Tolstoy's views on psychology and the nature of art are especially illuminating.” —Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel in other places over the years, he always considered this family residence in the Russian heartland as his home. His lifelong quest for truth and meaning began while he was a university student. Subsequent experiences as an artillery officer in the Caucasian and Crimean Wars, and time spent in St. Petersburg and Europe, broadened his perspective and profoundly influenced him. In Simply Tolstoy, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin traces the author’s profound journey of discovery and explains how he mined his tumultuous inner life to create his great works, including War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych. She shows how these books, both fiction and nonfiction, are not autobiographical in the conventional sense, but function as snapshots of Tolstoy’s state of mind at specific points in his life. The story she tells is, inevitably, intertwined with the story of Russia, a country also in constant search of its identity. Mixing biography, literary analysis, and history, Simply Tolstoy is a satisfying read for those already familiar with the author’s work, as well as an accessible and thoroughly engaging introduction to a literary giant who was also a tireless and uncompromising seeker of truth.
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Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : UVA:X001443476
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 ( users)
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Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015057953245
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Author : Jehanne Gheith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 9780810117143
Pages : 302 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (81 users)
Download Finding the Middle Ground PDF Full or another Format written by Jehanne Gheith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of two influential women writers in the mid-nineteenth century which challenges many common assumptions about the development of the Russian literary tradition
Author : Dale E. Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 0822325608
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (325 users)
Download Up from Bondage PDF Full or another Format written by Dale E. Peterson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era.