Peter the Great's African

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375990
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Peter the Great's African by : Alexander Pushkin

Download or read book Peter the Great's African written by Alexander Pushkin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet. Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s foundational writer, was constantly experimenting with new genres, and this fresh selection ushers readers into his creative laboratory. Politics and history weighed heavily on Pushkin’s imagination, and in “Peter the Great’s African” he depicts the Tsar through the eyes of one of his closest confidantes, Ibrahim, a former slave, modeled on Pushkin’s maternal great-grandfather. At once outsider and insider, Ibrahim offers a sympathetic yet questioning view of Peter’s attempt to integrate his vast, archaic empire into Europe. In the witty “History of the Village of Goriukhino” Pushkin employs parody and self-parody to explore problems of writing history, while “Dubrovsky” is both a gripping adventure story and a vivid picture of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth century, with its class conflicts ready to boil over in violence. “The Egyptian Nights,” an effervescent mixture of prose and poetry, reflects on the nature of artistic inspiration and the problem of the poet’s place in a rapidly changing and ever more commercialized society.

The Uncensored Boris Godunov

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299207633
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis The Uncensored Boris Godunov by : Chester Dunning

Download or read book The Uncensored Boris Godunov written by Chester Dunning and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the original Russian text and, for the first time, an English translation of that version. “Antony Wood’s translation is fluent and idiomatic; analyses by Dunning et al. are incisive; and the ‘case’ they make is skillfully argued. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

Commemorating Pushkin

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734486
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Commemorating Pushkin by : Stephanie Sandler

Download or read book Commemorating Pushkin written by Stephanie Sandler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations.

Pushkin on Literature

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810116153
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Pushkin on Literature by : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Download or read book Pushkin on Literature written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushkin on Literature approaches Pushkin's literary accomplishment from a unique perspective: it focuses on Pushkin the critic, and on his fascination with the literary world that surrounded him. This is the only English-language edition of the complete set of Pushkin's critical writing, both on his own work and on the wide range of European literature -- Byron, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Milton -- which he read and studied, and Which so profoundly influenced his own writing. These extracts from Pushkin's letters, articles, and working notes provide a complete chronological record of the artist's literary evolution, and provide a fascinating glimpse into the poet's intellectual passions.

Pushkin

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427374
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Pushkin by : T.J. Binyon

Download or read book Pushkin written by T.J. Binyon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife. In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art.

The Problem of History in Pushkin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Problem of History in Pushkin by : Stephanie Sandler

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Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674299450
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (994 download)

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Book Synopsis Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin by : William Mills Todd

Download or read book Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin written by William Mills Todd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todd describes the ideology of the educated westernized gentry, then charts the possibilities for literary life: first patronage, the salons, popular literature; then rapid emergence of an incipient literary profession. He explores the interactions of literature and society as writers "discovered" their own milieu and were discovered by it.

Taboo Pushkin

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299287033
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Taboo Pushkin by : Alyssa Dinega Gillespie

Download or read book Taboo Pushkin written by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his death in 1837, Alexander Pushkin—often called the “father of Russian literature”—has become a timeless embodiment of Russian national identity, adopted for diverse ideological purposes and reinvented anew as a cultural icon in each historical era (tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet). His elevation to mythic status, however, has led to the celebration of some of his writings and the shunning of others. Throughout the history of Pushkin studies, certain topics, texts, and interpretations have remained officially off-limits in Russia—taboos as prevalent in today’s Russia as ever before. The essays in this bold and authoritative volume use new approaches, overlooked archival materials, and fresh interpretations to investigate aspects of Pushkin’s biography and artistic legacy that have previously been suppressed or neglected. Taken together, the contributors strive to create a more fully realized Pushkin and demonstrate how potent a challenge the unofficial, taboo, alternative Pushkin has proven to be across the centuries for the Russian literary and political establishments.

The Complete Works of Alexander Pushkin

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ISBN 13 : 9780907681069
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Alexander Pushkin by : Aleksandr Sergeevič Pushkin

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Prisoner of Russia

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412831871
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Prisoner of Russia by : Юрий Дружников

Download or read book Prisoner of Russia written by Юрий Дружников and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (17991837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the Soviet regime. In Prisoner of Russia, Yuri Druzhnikov analyzes the distortions and misrepresentations of Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes toward Russia and Western Europe. Druzhnikov's semi-biographical narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia after his graduation from the Lyceum, through his period of exile, until his early death in a duel in 1837. The matter of emigration from Russia was a politically charged issue well before 1917; witness the hostile reception of all of Turgenev's novels from Fathers and Sons on. The emigr artist's cultural context is often used to assess his authenticity and stature as seen in the Western examples of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, or James Joyce. Druzhnikov sharply criticizes the omnipresent and reductive tendency in Russia (and the West) to define Russian cultural figures in terms of absolute essences and ideologies and to ignore the ambivalences that in fact help to define a writer's singularity. In the larger view, he argues, it is these that explain the variety and complexity of Russian culture. Druzhnikov's multidisciplinary approach combines literary and political history, with critical commentary arranged in chronological sequence. His interpretive apparatus ranges widely through nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and provides the necessary intellectual context for nonspecialist readers. He also avoids the massive accumulation of trivial detail characteristic of so much Pushkinology. This accessible, valuable exercise in cultural history will be of interest to Slavic scholars and students, cultural historians, and general readers interested in Russian literature and culture. Yuri Druzhnikov is professor of Russian literature at the University of California, Davis. As a Moscow dissident, he was blacklisted in Russia for fifteen years. He continues to serve as vice president of the International PEN club, for writers in exile.

Pushkin's Historical Imagination

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070231
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Pushkin's Historical Imagination by : Светлана Евдокимова

Download or read book Pushkin's Historical Imagination written by Светлана Евдокимова and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history - writings that have strongly influenced Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings of his drama Boris Godunov; such narrative poems as Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The Captain's Daughter and The Blackamoor of Peter the Great; lyrical poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but also as an original historical and political thinker.

Novels, Tales, Journeys

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Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307959643
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Novels, Tales, Journeys written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.

The Complete Works of Alexander Pushkin

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ISBN 13 : 9780907681069
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Alexander Pushkin by : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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Alexander Pushkin

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389203407
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Alexander Pushkin by : A. D. P. Briggs

Download or read book Alexander Pushkin written by A. D. P. Briggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1983 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, detailed and accessible account of all Pushkin's poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827413
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by : Andrew Kahn

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin written by Andrew Kahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at his enduring legacy in music and film from his own day to the present. Special attention is given to the reinvention of Pushkin as a cultural icon during the Soviet period. No other volume available brings together such a range of material and such comprehensive coverage of all Pushkin's major and minor writings. The contributions represent state-of-the-art scholarship that is innovative and accessible, and are complemented by a chronology and a guide to further reading.

The History of Pugachev

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Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842124185
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Pugachev by : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Download or read book The History of Pugachev written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defeated several times but rising again to besiege and burn several cities Pugachev was finally betrayed and sent to Moscow where he was paraded through the streets before being executed."--BOOK JACKET.

Prisoner of Russia

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135129010X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Prisoner of Russia by : Yuri Druzhnikov

Download or read book Prisoner of Russia written by Yuri Druzhnikov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799u1837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the Soviet regime. In Prisoner of Russia, Yuri Druzhnikov analyzes the distortions and misrepresentations of Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes toward Russia and Western Europe.Druzhnikov's semi-biographical narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia after his graduation from the Lyceum, through his period of exile, until his early death in a duel in 1837. The matter of emigration from Russia was a politically charged issue well before 1917; witness the hostile reception of all of Turgenev's novels from Fathers and Sons on. The emigrU artist's cultural context is often used to assess his authenticity and stature as seen in the Western examples of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, or James Joyce. Druzhnikov sharply criticizes the omnipresent and reductive tendency in Russia (and the West) to define Russian cultural figures in terms of absolute essences and ideologies and to ignore the ambivalences that in fact help to define a writer's singularity. In the larger view, he argues, it is these that explain the variety and complexity of Russian culture.Druzhnikov's multidisciplinary approach combines literary and political history, with critical commentary arranged in chronological sequence. His interpretive apparatus ranges widely through nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and provides the necessary intellectual context for nonspecialist readers. He also avoids the massive accumulation of trivial detail characteristic of so much Pushkinology. This accessible, valuable exercise in cultural history will be of interest to Slavic scholars and students, cultural historians, and general readers interested in Russian literature and culture.