The Absolute Solution: Nabokov's Response to Tyranny, 1938
ISBN: 9783034309561 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1938 tyranny attained unprecedented power: the Nazis annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, the Soviet purge reached its peak and the persecution of the Jews escalated into the horror of Kristallnacht. Nabokov frequently engaged with the subject of totalitarianism, but in 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, he responded to the political situation with an intensity unmatched at any other time in his career, writing three stories, a play and a novel, each warning of the danger of leaving tyranny unopposed.
Offering fresh insights into all of Nabokov s works of 1938, this book... In 1938 tyranny attained unprecedented power: the Nazis annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, the Soviet purge reached its peak and the persecution of ...
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832,18 zł |
Crime and Punishment
ISBN: 9781494410070 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. It focuses on moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature" period of writi...
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85,51 zł |
Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781138779181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This varied set presents a rich selection of renowned and lesser-known treatments of the Russian masters - considered by some the greatest novelists of all time - from the 1920s through to the '90s. This collection includes works of accessible biography, lucid literary criticism and insightful scholarship, investigating a wide range of themes: Tolstoy's aesthetic philosophy, Dostoevsky' curiously under-studied social and political views, Feminism, Nietzsche, and much else.
This varied set presents a rich selection of renowned and lesser-known treatments of the Russian masters - considered by some the greatest novelists o...
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2686,52 zł |
The Political and Social Thought of F.M. Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781138779952 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky's work. Also considered is the life and work of T.N. Granovsky, who is satirised along with Turgenev in the novel, and thus offers a useful basis on which to delineate the contours of Dostoevsky's thought. First published in 1991, the book begins from the belief that his "genius embodies much of what is typical of Russian life: his boundless vitality, his extremism, his lack of empiricism and economy. To understand Dostoevsky is therefore somehow to understand Russia." The... This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky's work. Also considered is the life and... |
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690,82 zł |
Reflecting on Anna Karenina
ISBN: 9781138780514 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy's troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she represents. In Reflecting on Anna Karenina, first published in 1989, Mary Evans presents an original, feminist reading of Anna's life and times for both students and the general audience. She argues that Anna is the embodiment of all those female characteristics that so captivated Tolstoy, and which he felt so... Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study of its morally ambiguous protagonist... |
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562,89 zł |
Stories and Prose Poems
ISBN: 9780374534721 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century. A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twent... |
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65,18 zł |
Degeneration, Decadence and Disease in the Russian Fin de Siècle: Neurasthenia in the Life and Work of Leonid Andreev
ISBN: 9780719091643 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation. Leonid Andreev, the leading literary figure of his time, stepped into the breach of this scientific discourse with literary works about degenerates. The spirited social debates on mental illness, morality and sexual deviance which resulted from these works became part of the ongoing battle over the definition and depiction of the irrational, complicated by Andreev's own...
Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify med...
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457,85 zł |
The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History
ISBN: 9781628921878 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order.
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological... This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian ...
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716,40 zł |
Tolstoy: The Comprehensive Vision
ISBN: 9781138803213 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tolstoy was as much a philosopher as a novelist. From the entries in his early diaries through to the great novels he was constantly searching for a comprehensive vision, equal to 'the confusion of life'. It was in his personal diaries that Tolstoy first attempted a 'literary psychology' to reveal those thoughts and feelings we conceal from ourselves, then inventing the interior monologue to expose the psychology of his characters. Emphasising the importance of these early characteristics for Tolstoy's development as a writer, this volume, published first in 1975, assesses Tolstoy's...
Tolstoy was as much a philosopher as a novelist. From the entries in his early diaries through to the great novels he was constantly searching for a c...
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562,89 zł |
Europe, Nationalism, Communism: Essays on Poland
ISBN: 9783631567623 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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256,88 zł |
Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception
ISBN: 9780199689484 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russian-European features. This volume looks to uncover the nature of Russian reception of Vergil, and argues that the best way to analyse his presence in Russian letters is to view it in the context of the formation and development of Russian national and literary identity.
Russian reception of Vergil began to play an integral role in the eighteenth century -- starting with the reforms of Peter the Great -- and continued to be an important point of reference for Russian... The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russian-European features. This volu...
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636,52 zł |
Portrait Stories
ISBN: 9780823262601 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter...
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subj...
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210,07 zł |
Bondarchuk's War and Peace: Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic
ISBN: 9780700620050 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds. This book, taking up Bondarchuk's masterpiece as a Cold War film, an epic, a literary adaptation, a historical drama, and a rival to Vidor's Hollywood version, recovers--and expands--a lost chapter in the cultural and political history of the twentieth century. Like many great...
Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response...
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290,87 zł |
Russian Lyrics: With Notes and Vocabulary
ISBN: 9781107646926 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1917, this book contains a series of untranslated Russian lyric poems aimed at those learning the language. Detailed editorial notes are included in English and there is a Russian-English vocabulary at the end of the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Russian poetry and the history of education.
First published in 1917, this book contains a series of untranslated Russian lyric poems aimed at those learning the language. Detailed editorial note...
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Tadeusz Kantor Today: Metamorphoses of Death, Memory and Presence- Translated by Anda MacBride
ISBN: 9783631633601 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a compendium of texts by international authors which reflect on Tadeusz Kantor s art in a broad range of contexts. The studies include works of prominent art historians, theatrologists and artists. The present revisiting of Kantor s artistic uvre reflects a contemporary historiographic approach. The authors place value on individual memory and consider contemporary art outside the traditional boundaries of particular artistic genres. The studies employ the latest strategies for researching theatrical performance as autonomous statements, without a literary anchor. Thanks to this...
This book is a compendium of texts by international authors which reflect on Tadeusz Kantor s art in a broad range of contexts. The studies include wo...
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K.F. Ryleev: A Political Biography of the Decembrist Poet
ISBN: 9780691612539 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses particular attention on the six-month interrogation of the doomed poet, and it provides a critical evaluation of Soviet interpretations and an assessment of Ryleev's historical significance. Originally published in 1984. 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 hardcover editions. The goal of... This book focuses particular attention on the six-month interrogation of the doomed poet, and it provides a critical evaluation of Soviet interpret... |
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Don't Call Me a Victim!
ISBN: 9781784379070 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in India, Europe, USA and Japan.
One night in1974, Archana, her brothers wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archanas younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for armed insurrection. When Archanas brother is caught, the three women are sent to prison indefinitely, along with him, on... This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in ...
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130,33 zł |
Don't Call Me a Victim!
ISBN: 9781784379087 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in India, Europe, USA and Japan. One night in1974, Archana, her brother's wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archana's younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for armed insurrection. When Archana's brother is caught, the three women are sent to prison indefinitely, along with him, on...
This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in ...
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162,92 zł |
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
ISBN: 9780141198309 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more... An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and I...
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66,30 zł |
The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781502850584 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 - 10 February 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 - 10 February 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest R...
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27,16 zł |