Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Russian & Former Soviet Union

Die russischsprachige Satire wird haufig in den Rang einer Schattenliteraturform gedrangt. Dennoch kann sie die Funktion ausuben, die der Satire gemeinhin zugeschrieben wird: auf aggressive Art Missstande in einer Gesellschaft zu kritisieren.

Dieser Band enthalt die Vortrage der vom Institut fur Slavistik der Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel und der Staatlichen Universitat Irkutsk durchgefuhrten Konferenz Russische Satire seit der Perestrojka bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart: Formen und Themen kunstlerischer Auseinandersetzung. Ziel des Austausches war, herauszufinden,...

This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.

For the convenience of those only interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone volumes:

Part I: Religion and the Church
Part II: Literature
Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music

This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.

For the convenience of those only interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone volumes:

Part I: Religion and the Church
Part II: Literature
Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music

Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburg's famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying principle of material animation. Ever since Pushkin's 1833 poem The Bronze Horseman, the city has provided a literary space in which inanimate things (noses, playing cards, overcoats) spring to life. Scollins's book addresses this issue of animacy by analyzing the powerful function of language in the city's literature, from its mythic origins--in which the tsar Peter appears as a God-like creator, calling his city forth from nothing--to the...

Treating Sholokhov's art and life against the Soviet political background, the author considers the episodes in his life that influenced his writing and then shows how one-sided commitment to party ideology led to his creative deterioration.

Originally published in 1982.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and...

Treating Sholokhov's art and life against the Soviet political background, the author considers the episodes in his life that influenced his writing and then shows how one-sided commitment to party ideology led to his creative deterioration.

Originally published in 1982.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and...

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the "mystery" of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by...

The 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, Jonathan Stone examines the poetry and theory of Russian Symbolism within the framework of the institutions that organized, published, and disseminated the works to Russian readers. Surveying a wealth of examples of books, journals, and almanacs, Stone traces how publishers of Symbolist works marketed the movement and fashioned a...

The 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, Jonathan Stone examines the poetry and theory of Russian Symbolism within the framework of the institutions that organized, published, and disseminated the works to Russian readers. Surveying a wealth of examples of books, journals, and almanacs, Stone traces how publishers of Symbolist works marketed the movement and fashioned a...

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the "mystery" of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by...

Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization--including the political, economic, and social dimensions--are present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings.

This book points the way to a better understanding of the apparent contradiction between Dostoyevsky's concern with the highest reaches of human spirituality and at the same time with the most detailed developments in domestic and international politics. Ward argues that the apparent polarization...

Aus einem neuen Blickwinkel analysiert diese Untersuchung die Ebene, die sich hinter den Exotismen des (Exil-)Werks Paul Zechs verbirgt: Die vehemente Kritik der anhaltenden Vertreibung indigener Volker verbunden mit der Monierung der Umweltzerstorung des industrialisierten Menschen. Unter Heranziehung postkolonialer und okokritischer Theorien, hybrider Modelle und Alteritatskonzepte interpretiert die Autorin veroffentlichte und unveroffentlichte Exiltexte Zechs. Dabei zeigt sie auf, wie sich die untersuchten Werke in eine Reihe von Medien neueren Datums einfugen, die zwischen...