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Waiting for Pushkin

Author : Alessandra Tosi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202192
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Pushkin written by Alessandra Tosi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for Pushkin provides the only modern history of Russian fiction in the early nineteenth century to appear in over thirty years. Prose fiction has a more prominent position in the literature of Russia than in that of any other great country. Although nineteenth-century fiction in particular occupies a privileged place in Russian and world literature alike, the early stages of this development have so far been overlooked. By combining a broad historical survey with close textual analysis the book provides a unique overview of a key phase in Russian literary history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including rare editions and literary journals, Alessandra Tosi reconstructs the literary activities occurring at the time, introduces neglected but fascinating narratives, many of which have never been studied before and demonstrates the long-term influence of this body of works on the ensuing “golden age” of the Russian novel. Waiting for Pushkin provides an indispensable source for scholars and students of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. The volume is also relevant to those interested in women’s writing, comparative studies and Russian literature in general.

Waiting for Pushkin

Author : Alessandra Tosi
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042018291
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Pushkin written by Alessandra Tosi and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for Pushkin provides the only modern history of Russian fiction in the early nineteenth century to appear in over thirty years. Prose fiction has a more prominent position in the literature of Russia than in that of any other great country. Although nineteenth-century fiction in particular occupies a privileged place in Russian and world literature alike, the early stages of this development have so far been overlooked. By combining a broad historical survey with close textual analysis the book provides a unique overview of a key phase in Russian literary history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including rare editions and literary journals, Alessandra Tosi reconstructs the literary activities occurring at the time, introduces neglected but fascinating narratives, many of which have never been studied before and demonstrates the long-term influence of this body of works on the ensuing "golden age" of the Russian novel. Waiting for Pushkin provides an indispensable source for scholars and students of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. The volume is also relevant to those interested in women's writing, comparative studies and Russian literature in general.

Pushkin's Ode to Liberty

Author : M.A. DuVernet
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499052936
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Pushkin's Ode to Liberty written by M.A. DuVernet and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s most beloved poet. Pushkin is a decedent of a noble family on his father’s side and on his mother’s side the great-grandson of Peter the Great’s Blackamoor slave, who was presented with his freedom and became a general in the tsar’s Navy. Pushkin’s poem “Ode to Liberty” brought hope to the Russian people during a time when other countries were defining their democracy. He is considered to be the Shakespeare of Russian literature having inspired many other writers to follow him. He was revered for his masterpiece Eugene Onegin, and like the hero in his masterpiece became changed by the woman he loved. As a poet, he was also known as the patron saint of dueling having fought many duels during his short life, often over a matter of words or women. His last duel was surrounded with mystery involving an anonymous letter accusing his wife of being unfaithful. He fought this duel to defend his wife’s honor and the mystery of the anonymous letter was never solved, until now! Explore the poetry and letters of Pushkin and read about his fascination with dueling, issues with religion, his struggles with censorship, the years he spent in exile while still serving the autocracy, his tribute to his comrades who fought in the Decembrist Uprising and his search for happiness as he finds and marries the most beautiful woman in all of Russia. Author M. A. DuVernet tells a captivating story of a black poet in Russia during the 1800’s, a man who believed in himself and became a legend in spite of the powerful few who hated him.

Ford Madox Ford and Englishness

Author : Dennis Brown
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042020535
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Ford Madox Ford and Englishness written by Dennis Brown and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. International Ford Madox Ford Studies has been founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; each will relate aspects of Ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade's End, which Anthony Burgess described as 'the finest novel about the First World War'; and Samuel Hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman'. These works, together with his trilogy The Fifth Queen, about Henry VIII and Katharine Howard, are centrally concerned with the idea of Englishness. All these, and other works across Ford's prolific oeuvre, are studied here. Critics of Edwardian and Modernist literature have been increasingly turning to Ford's brilliant 1905 experiment in Impressionism, The Soul of London, as an exemplary text. His trilogy England and the English (of which this forms the first part) provides a central reference-point for this volume, which presents Ford as a key contributor to Edwardian debates about the 'Condition of England'. His complex, ironic attitude to Englishness makes his approach stand out from contemporary anxieties about race and degeneration, and anticipate the recent reconsideration of Englishness in response to post-colonialism, multiculturalism, globalization, devolution, and the expansion and development of the European Community. Ford's apprehension of the major social transformations of his age lets us read him as a precursor to cultural studies. He considered mass culture and its relation to literary traditions decades before writers like George Orwell, the Leavises, or Raymond Williams. The present book initiates a substantial reassessment, to be continued in future volumes in the series, of Ford's responses to these cultural transformations, his contacts with other writers, and his phases of activity as an editor working to transform modern literature. From another point of view, the essays here also develop the project established in earlier volumes, of reappraising Ford's engagement with the city, history, and modernity.

Pushkin’s Monument and Allusion

Author : Sidney Eric Dement
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487532245
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Pushkin’s Monument and Allusion written by Sidney Eric Dement and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "Monument." In the decades following his death in January 1837, the poem "Monument" was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: the Pushkin Monument. At its dedication in 1880, the interaction between the verbal text and the visual monument established a creative dynamic that subsequent generations of artists and thinkers amplified through the use of allusion, simultaneously inviting their readers and spectators into a shared cultural history and enriching the meaning of their original creations. The history of the Pushkin Monument reveals how allusive practice becomes more complex over time. As the population of literate Russians grew throughout the twentieth century, both writers and readers negotiated increasingly complex allusions not only to Pushkin’s poem, but to its statuesque form in Moscow and the many performances that took place around it. Because of this, the story of Pushkin’s Monument is also the story of cultural memory and the aesthetic problems that accompany a cultural history that grows ever longer as it moves into the future.

Shtetl Tales

Author : Eleanore Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665550805
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Shtetl Tales written by Eleanore Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories takes place in the fictional shtetl of Patchentuch, located somewhere in the backwater of Eastern Poland in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stories, which transcend the grim reality of shtetl life to another geography, tell of the lighthearted adventures and misadventures of the town’s residents. My hope is that these tales will provide the same pleasure for the reader that I derived from creating them.

Pushkin

Author : The U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Rel
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780898759174
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Pushkin written by The U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Rel and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He is the greatest artist in the world, the beginning of all the beginnings of Russian literature. He was the founder of our poetry, and always the teacher of all us." -- Maxim Gorky"He will always remain great, an exemplary master of poetry, and teacher of art. His poetry possessed the peculiar virtue of being able to develop in people a sense of artistic refinement and a sense of humanity... The time will come when he will be held up in Russia as a classical poet, whose works will guide the formation and development of not only the aesthetic but also the moral sense." -- Vissarion BelinskyThe time Belinsky predicted in 1846 has come, for the world.

Writing Fear

Author : Katherine Bowers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487526946
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Writing Fear written by Katherine Bowers and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian literature’s engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period. Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre’s function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.

Mud and Stars

Author : Sara Wheeler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Mud and Stars written by Sara Wheeler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country’s literary masters. Wheeler weaves these writers’ lives and works around their historical homes, giving us rich portraits of the many diverse Russias from which these writers spoke. Illustrated with both historical images and contemporary snapshots of the people and places that shaped her journey, Mud and Stars gives us timely, witty, and deeply personal insights into Russia, then and now. One of Smithsonian’s Ten Best Travel Books of the Year

A Commentary to Pushkin’s Lyric Poetry, 1826–1836

Author : Michael Wachtel
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 029928543X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary to Pushkin’s Lyric Poetry, 1826–1836 written by Michael Wachtel and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin’s lyric poetry—much of it known to Russians by heart—is the cornerstone of the Russian literary tradition, yet until now there has been no detailed commentary of it in any language. Michael Wachtel’s book, designed for those who can read Russian comfortably but not natively, provides the historical, biographical, and cultural context needed to appreciate the work of Russia’s greatest poet. Each entry begins with a concise summary highlighting the key information about the poem’s origin, subtexts, and poetic form (meter, stanzaic structure, and rhyme scheme). In line-by-line fashion, Wachtel then elucidates aspects most likely to challenge non-native readers: archaic language, colloquialisms, and unusual diction or syntax. Where relevant, he addresses political, religious, and folkloric issues. Pushkin’s verse has attracted generations of brilliant interpreters. The purpose of this commentary is not to offer a new interpretation, but to give sufficient linguistic and cultural contextualization to make informed interpretation possible.

Granta 148

Author : Sigrid Rausing
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1909889261
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Granta 148 written by Sigrid Rausing and published by Granta. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New fiction from: Haruki Murakami Ben Lerner Amor Towles David Means Julia Armfield Te-Ping Chen Magogodi OaMphela Makhene Sara Majka Thomas Pierce Adam O'Fallon Price Jem Calder Plus poetry from Nuar Alsadir, and a photoessay on transhumanism by Matthieu Gafsou with an introduction by Daisy Hildyard

The Netanyahus

Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376075
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Netanyahus written by Joshua Cohen and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever." —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

Land of Snow and Ashes

Author : Petra Rautiainen
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782277374
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Land of Snow and Ashes written by Petra Rautiainen and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles

Author : Gordon Sly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000219763
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles written by Gordon Sly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Novels, Tales, Journeys

Author : Alexander Pushkin
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 Bomber Mafia

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316296937
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.

The Russian Question

Author : Wayne Allensworth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847690039
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Question written by Wayne Allensworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. The nationalist imperative - 2. The historical background - 3. Solzhenitsyn an the russian question - 4. Christian nationalism and the black hundreds - 5. National bolshevism and the two parties - 6. Zhirinovsky and the last drive to the south - 7. Neo-nazism and the national revolution - 8. The nationalist intelligentsia, eurasia and the problem of technology - 9. Reform nationalism - 10. The global regime and the nationalist reaction.