Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Eastern European (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)

Written down for the first time in the indigenous Sakha language of Yakutia (Sakha Republic, northeastern Siberia) in the early 1930s by the politician, poet, and story-tellerPlaton A. Oyunsky (1893-1939), this first English translation was proclaimed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends--one of the longest being "Nurgun Botur the Swift," consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse. Like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Yakut Olonkho is an epic of a very...

Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Untersuchung der Metaphernprogramme der engagierten Autorin Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793). Diese Studie analysiert mit der Metapher eines der zentralen sprachlichen Mittel, die wahrend des regen politischen Diskurses rund um die Franzosische Revolution bei der Vermittlung politisch-sozialer Programme eingesetzt wurden. Das Korpus basiert auf nicht-fiktionalen, fur den Revolutionsdiskurs prototypischen Textsorten aus dem Zeitraum 1786-1793. Die Untersuchung kombiniert interaktionstheoretische, textfunktionale sowie pragmatisch-kognitive Ansatze und liefert...

In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American landscape challenge existing assertions about American fiction. Specifically, Russell argues that looking at the intimate connections between space, gender, race, and identity as they play out in the fiction of Cather and Morrison refutes the myth of a unified American landscape and thus opens up the territory of...

Soviet literature in general and Soviet children's literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children's literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children's culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society.