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Book Synopsis Gender and Russian Literature by : Rosalind J. Marsh
Download or read book Gender and Russian Literature written by Rosalind J. Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards.
Author :Sona Stephan Hoisington Publisher :Northwestern University Press ISBN 13 :9780810112247 Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis A Plot of Her Own by : Sona Stephan Hoisington
Download or read book A Plot of Her Own written by Sona Stephan Hoisington and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation. The female protagonists in the works examined are inextricably linked with the fundamental issues raised by the novels they inform; the interpretations offered strive not to be reductive or doctrinaire, not to be imposed from the outside but to arise from the texts themselves and the historical circumstances in which they were written. Authors discussed include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov, and the novels considered range from Fathers and Children to Zamyatin's anti-Utopian We. Throughout, the contributors new visions expand our understanding of the words and reveal new significance in them.
Book Synopsis Men Without Women by : Eliot Borenstein
Download or read book Men Without Women written by Eliot Borenstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the construction of masculinity in early Soviet culture that finds in the novels of Babel and others an utopian society composed exclusively of men.
Book Synopsis Gender in Russian History and Culture by : L. Edmondson
Download or read book Gender in Russian History and Culture written by L. Edmondson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.
Book Synopsis Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature by : Svetlana Grenier
Download or read book Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature written by Svetlana Grenier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender-oriented studies of 19th-century Russian literature have struggled with how to determine the feminism or misogyny of particular authors. This book argues that in order to make this determination, we need to engage with the poetics of the text rather than rely on the author's stated views. By focusing on the character type of the ward, or young female dependent, this book examines the narrative strategies used by such writers as Pushkin, Zhukova, Tolstoy, Herzen, and Dostoevsky to represent socially marginal women in their works. Drawing on the theories of Bakhtin, the volume analyzes the degree to which female characters are presented as subjects who actively think and perceive, rather than as passive objects who are thought of and perceived by men. In a polyphonic novel, authors enter into dialogic relationships with their characters; they depict them as unfinalizable persons, unfathomable and unpredictable, capable of the full range of human activity and emotion. The extent to which this polyphony incorporates women's voices is an accurate gauge of the feminism or misogyny of individual writers.
Book Synopsis Only Among Women by : Anne Eakin Moss
Download or read book Only Among Women written by Anne Eakin Moss and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Among Women reveals how the idea of a community of women as a social sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest originated in the classic Russian novel, fueled mystical notions of unity in turn-of-the-century modernism, and finally assumed a privileged place in Stalinist culture, especially cinema.
Book Synopsis Reinventing Romantic Poetry by : Diana Greene
Download or read book Reinventing Romantic Poetry written by Diana Greene and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinventing Romantic Poetry offers a new look at the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century. While celebrated poets such as Aleksandr Pushkin worked within a male-centered Romantic aesthetic—the poet as a bard or sexual conqueror; nature as a mother or mistress; the poet’s muse as an idealized woman—Russian women attempting to write Romantic poetry found they had to reinvent poetic conventions of the day to express themselves as women and as poets. Comparing the poetry of fourteen men and fourteen women from this period, Diana Greene revives and redefines the women’s writings and offers a thoughtful examination of the sexual politics of reception and literary reputation. The fourteen women considered wrote poetry in every genre, from visions to verse tales, from love lyrics to metaphysical poetry, as well as prose works and plays. Greene delves into the reasons why their writing was dismissed, focusing in particular on the work of Evdokiia Rostopchina, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia, and Karolina Pavlova. Greene also considers class as a factor in literary reputation, comparing canonical male poets with the work of other men whose work, like the women’s, was deemed inferior at the time. The book also features an appendix of significant poems by Russian women discussed in the text. Some, found in archival notebooks, are published here for the first time, and others are reprinted for the first time since the mid-nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by : Catriona Kelly
Download or read book Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Catriona Kelly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis by : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Download or read book Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of the contributions are original publications by present-day specialists in the field. This is a book which may benefit literary scholars as well as professional psychoanalysts.
Book Synopsis Terrible Perfection by : Barbara Heldt
Download or read book Terrible Perfection written by Barbara Heldt and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the first thorough-going feminist study of Russian literature." --The Slavonic Review "... a ground-breaking book.... Written with verve and wit... a pleasure to read." --Slavic Review
Book Synopsis Women Writers in Russian Literature by : Toby W. Clyman
Download or read book Women Writers in Russian Literature written by Toby W. Clyman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Writers in Russian Literature presents a critical overview of Russian women writers from earliest times to the present, including emigre authors. Each of the 14 essays is by a scholar in a particular field; together, they cover all of Russian literature--from old Russia through the 18th and 19th centuries and up to the present--and include all genres: prose, poetry, drama, and autobiography. This collection examines images of women, and reintroduces Russian women writers whose recognition is long overdue. It also focuses on issues of reception and canon formation, and the relationship between gender and genre.
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Writing in Russia by : Adele Marie Barker
Download or read book A History of Women's Writing in Russia written by Adele Marie Barker and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.
Book Synopsis Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia by : Wendy Rosslyn
Download or read book Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia written by Wendy Rosslyn and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic presence in Russia's culture and society"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Wives written by Alexandra Popoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers may know that such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence used their marriages for literary inspiration and material. In Russian literary marriages, these women did not resent taking a secondary position, although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history. From Sofia Tolstoy to Vera Nabokov and Elena Mandelshtam and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, these women ranged from stenographers and typists to editors, researchers, translators, and even publishers. Living under restrictive regimes, many of these women battled censorship and preserved the writers’ illicit archives, often risking their own lives to do so. They established a tradition all their own, unmatched in the West. Many of these women, like Vera and Sofia, were the writers’ intellectual companions and willingly contributed to the creative process—they commonly used the word “we” to describe the progress of their husbands’ work. And their husbands knew it too. Leo Tolstoy made no secret of Sofia’s involvement in War and Peace, and Vladimir Nabokov referred to Vera as his own “single shadow.”
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Russian Women Writers by : Mariana Astman Ledkovsky
Download or read book Dictionary of Russian Women Writers written by Mariana Astman Ledkovsky and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work in any language devoted to Russian women writers, this dictionary systematically covers, in detail, the lives of 448 women who wrote from the period of Catherine the Great to the present. Despite their significant achievements, women writers are generally missing from the canons of Russian literature. The present editorial team individually began the process of uncovering this lost literary heritage over ten years ago. More recently, they joined forces with and enlisted contributions from scholars in North America, Europe, and Russia. Each entry comprises a bio-critical sketch followed by lists of important writings in the original and in translation, archival sources, and major secondary references. Data has been researched worldwide, with biographical information culled from diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources as well as literary histories and reference works. A general bibliography supplements the secondary sources provided with each entry.
Book Synopsis How Women Must Write by : Olga Peters Hasty
Download or read book How Women Must Write written by Olga Peters Hasty and published by Studies in Russian Literature. This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olga Peters Hasty's How Women Must Write provides an insightful analysis of the emergence of women poets in Russia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of quickly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions.
Book Synopsis Women with a Thirst for Destruction by : Jenny Kaminer
Download or read book Women with a Thirst for Destruction written by Jenny Kaminer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2014 AWSS Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country s history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin s The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov s Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia s The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet film (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich s Adam s Rib, 1990) and media coverage of the Chechen conflict. Kaminer s book speaks broadly to the mutability of seemingly established cultural norms in the face of political and social upheaval. "
