In A Voltaire for Russia, Amanda Ewington examines the tumultuous literary career of Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov in relation to that of his slightly older French contemporary, Voltaire. Although largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Sumarokov was one of the founding fathers of modern Russian literature, renowned in his own time as a great playwright and prolific poet. A Voltaire for Russia polemicizes with long-accepted readings of Sumarokov as an imitator of French neoclassical poets, ultimately questioning the very notion of a Russian classicism. Ewington uncovers Sumarokov s...
In A Voltaire for Russia, Amanda Ewington examines the tumultuous literary career of Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov in relation to that of his slightly...
In "Dostoevsky s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin," Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky s dialectics distinct from Hegelian dialectics as a philosophy of compatible contradictions. Expanding on the classical triad of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, Blank guides us through Dostoevsky s most difficult paradoxes: goodness that begets evil, beautiful personalities that bringabout grief, and criminality that brings about salvation.
Dostoevsky s philosophy of contradictions, this book demonstrates,...
In "Dostoevsky s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin," Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formu...
Since their publication, the works of Dostoevsky have provided rich fodder for adaptations to opera, film, and drama. While Dostoevsky gave his blessing to the idea of adapting his work to other forms, he believed that "each art form corresponds to a series of poetic thoughts, so that one idea cannot be expressed in another non-corresponding form." In Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky, Alexander Burry argues that twentieth-century adaptations (which he calls "transpositions") of four of Dostoevsky s works Sergei Prokofiev s opera The Gambler, Leos Janacek s opera From the Dead House,...
Since their publication, the works of Dostoevsky have provided rich fodder for adaptations to opera, film, and drama. While Dostoevsky gave his blessi...
Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and cultures interacted with one another and a rich subject for representation in their art. It is commonplace to note the influence of Gogol on Russian...
Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book...
Dostoevsky s Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of "The Brothers Karamazov" also be the source of the slurs against Jews in "Diary of a Writer"? And where is the celebrated Christian humanist in the nationalist outbursts of "The Idiot"? These enigmas the coexistence of humanism and hatred, faith and doubt are linked, Susan McReynolds tells us in"Redemption and the Merchant God." Her book analyzes Dostoevsky s novels and "Diary" to show how the author s anxieties about Christianity can help solve the riddle of his...
Dostoevsky s Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of "The Brothers Karamazo...
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is one of Russia's most prominent poets--and one of its most puzzling. In this radically new interpretation, David Powelstock reveals how the seeming contradictions in Lermontov's life and works can be understood as manifestations of a coherent worldview. By bringing to light Lermontov's operative version of Romantic individualism, Powelstock is able to make sense of the poet's relationship to "romantic irony," his highly modern concept of the reader (both real, and implied in the text), and his vexed passion for his predecessor Alexander Pushkin--a...
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is one of Russia's most prominent poets--and one of its most puzzling. In this radically new interpretation, David Powel...
