Empire and the Gothic

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919348
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire and the Gothic by : A. Smith

Download or read book Empire and the Gothic written by A. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.

Haunted Empire

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750593
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Haunted Empire by : Valeria Sobol

Download or read book Haunted Empire written by Valeria Sobol and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms "the imperial uncanny." Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.

Reference Guide to Russian Literature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260776
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis Reference Guide to Russian Literature by : Neil Cornwell

Download or read book Reference Guide to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

You Must Change Your Life

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045337
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis You Must Change Your Life by : John T. Lysaker

Download or read book You Must Change Your Life written by John T. Lysaker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not limited to a single poem or collection of poems, ur-poetry arises when, in the interaction of an author's principal tropes, the origin of poetry is exposed as a process whereby words with inherited meaning take on a new poetic life that draws our attention to the "birth of sense"--The manner in which the manifold realities that surround us are revealed. And it is precisely through an experience of the birth of sense that we are able to understand and dwell differently among these realities."--Jacket.

Lives in Letters

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Lives in Letters by : Bayara Aroutunova

Download or read book Lives in Letters written by Bayara Aroutunova and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Language of Ruins

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190875283
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Book Synopsis The Language of Ruins by : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

Download or read book The Language of Ruins written by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak" regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. The inscribed names left behind reveal the presence of emperors and soldiers, provincial governors and businessmen, elite women and military wives, and families with children. While recent studies of imperial literature acknowledge the colossus, few address the inscriptions themselves. This book is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context. The Memnon colossus functioned as a powerful site of engagement with the Greek past, and appealed to a broad segment of society. The inscriptions shed light on contemporary attitudes toward sacred tourism, the role of Egypt in the Greco-Roman imagination, and the cultural legacy of Homeric epic. Memnon is a ghost from the Homeric past anchored in the Egyptian present, and visitors yearned for a "close encounter" that would connect them with that distant past. The inscriptions thus idealize Greece by echoing archaic literature in their verses at the same time as they reflect their own historical horizon. These and other subjects are expertly explored in the book, including a fascinating chapter on the colossus's post-classical life when the statue finds new worshippers among Romantic artists and poets in nineteenth-century Europe.

Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135232342
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals) by : Laura Dabundo

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals) written by Laura Dabundo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.

Joseph Brodsky

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230373399
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph Brodsky by : L. Loseff

Download or read book Joseph Brodsky written by L. Loseff and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an imaginative work of literary criticism. Thirteen scholars have selected a wide variety of Joseph Brodsky's poems written between 1970 and 1994 for detailed discussion in the context of his whole output. The choice of poems reflects Brodsky's diversity of themes and devices. Together they offer a perspective on one of the most original and profound modern poets. This collection should fulfil the often-expressed need for a comprehensive approach to the study of Brodsky's poetry, which is linguistically as well as intellectually demanding.

Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art: No. 4 - 5

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ISBN 13 : 9197598003
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Book Synopsis Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art: No. 4 - 5 by : Alexander Deriev

Download or read book Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art: No. 4 - 5 written by Alexander Deriev and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Without a Dowry and Other Plays

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468309285
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Book Synopsis Without a Dowry and Other Plays by : Alexander Ostrovsky

Download or read book Without a Dowry and Other Plays written by Alexander Ostrovsky and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and precursor to Chekhov, he was a keen sociological observer, often exposing abuses of power, landing him in trouble with the censors again and again. He wrote 47 original plays and began the tradition of acting today associated with Stanislavsky. Ostrovsky’s plays were written with performance in mind and with a masterful use of colloquial language. To this day they are a much-performed part of the Russian repertory. Â This volume collects four of Ostrovsky’s key plays, each from a different decade—A Profitable Position, An Ardent Heart, Without a Dowry, and Talents and Admirers, and is rounded out by the translator’s introduction, an afterword for each play, an extensive bibliography, and complete list of Ostrovsky’s works.

The Hand at Work

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Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644697092
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hand at Work by : Susanne Strätling

Download or read book The Hand at Work written by Susanne Strätling and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art = New Vision. This formula shaped the avant-garde. With moving images abruptly expanding the boundaries of the visible world, new printing techniques triggering a pictorial turn in graphic art, and literature becoming almost inseparable from visual media, we still regard the avant-garde as heyday for modernism’s obsession with the eye. But what are the blind spots of this optocentrism? Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing, and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. Hand movements, manual maneuvers and manipulations challenge optics and expose the crises of a visually dominated perspective on the arts. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making, as well as the perception, of literature and the arts.

Selected letters of Evgenij Baratynskij

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111396843
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Selected letters of Evgenij Baratynskij written by Evgenii Abramovich Baratynskii and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terminal Degree

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Publisher : Helia Press
ISBN 13 : 1952723493
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)

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Book Synopsis Terminal Degree by : Sid Stark

Download or read book Terminal Degree written by Sid Stark and published by Helia Press. This book was released on with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowena Halley has hit a dead end. Will it leave her dead? Russian professor Rowena Halley is at the end of her money, the end of her job contract, the end of her romantic hopes…the end of her tether. And just when she thinks she can’t take any more, she gets dragged into not one, but two sticky situations by her nearest and dearest. Her friend Mel needs her help dealing with a scammer, and her long-lost paternal grandparents want her back in their lives—with cultish strings attached. But Rowena has even bigger problems. Her ex-fiancé, opposition Russian journalist Dima Kuznetsov, comes to America, bringing old history and new danger with him. Rowena wants to believe they have a future as a couple. The mercenaries and hitmen Dima has been tangling with over the years could mean they don’t have a future, period. And revelations about Dima’s most recent deal with the Devil cause Rowena to doubt their chances to make a life together, even if they do survive. Rowena wants a happy ending for everyone. But with this many bad guys mad at her, the ending she’s most likely to get is the terminal kind. Content warning: This book contains an Air Force veteran, an officer in the Marines, and an ex-member of the Russian OMON. The language is accordingly salty.

Russian Poets

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Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307269744
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Russian Poets by : Peter Washington

Download or read book Russian Poets written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Joseph Brodsky, among many others. Arranged by theme—love, mortality, art, and the enduring mystery of Mother Russia herself—and presented in the best available translations, these poems will serve as both an introduction to the mastery of Russian poetry and a wide-ranging selection to be returned to again and again.

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 Romantic Poetess

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654315
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Poetess written by Patrick H. Vincent and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant and provocative study of the literary and political effects of the work of romantic poetesses in England, France, and Russia.

University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies, 1907-2006

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Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 0947623809
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies, 1907-2006 by : Gregory Piers Mountford Walker

Download or read book University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies, 1907-2006 written by Gregory Piers Mountford Walker and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters' theses (over 3,300 in all) from British and Irish universities in the field of Russian, Soviet and East European studies. This is broadly interpreted to include all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as they relate to the area of Russia, the former USSR and Eastern Europe. Taken as a whole, the work probably forms the fullest and longest record of British and Irish postgraduate research in any sector of area studies. Besides its primary function as a bibliographic tool, it makes it possible to trace the effects of academic developments, institutional policies, and the changes in direction in this highly diversified field of study over the last hundred years. Entries are arranged by subject and area, supported by full author and subject indexes to aid searching. Dr Gregory Walker is a former Head of Slavonic and East European Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The late John S.G. Simmons, OBE, was Senior Research Fellow and Librarian, All Souls College, Oxford.