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Russian Realisms
One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of...
An Ordinary Marriage
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel
The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel brings together top specialists in Russian literature to treat the Russian novel from the late 18th to the 21st century, using a range of interpretive perspectives. The Russian novel is a distinctive tradition by virtue of its formal eccentricities, as well as the boldness with which these works approached the most complex philosophical, political, and moral questions. This Handbook treats well-known works and authors but also explores the much broader tradition of the Russian novel up to the present. The essays in the Handbook provide cultural and historical perspectives on the Russian novel, as well as showcasing emergent modes of analysis, including postcolonialism, ecocriticism, and posthumanism.
Life Is Elsewhere
In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature's representation of the nation's space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as la...
Ulbandus Review
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Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and a fearless public intellectual on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, her colleagues pay tribute with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.
NewsNet
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Noble Subjects
Relations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformation during the roughly one hundred-year period encompassing the reign of Catherine II (1762–1796) and ending with the Great Reforms initiated by Alexander II. This period also saw the gradual appearance, by the early decades of the nineteenth century, of a novelistic tradition that depicted the Russian society of its day. In Noble Subjects, Bella Grigoryan examines the rise of the Russian novel in relation to the political, legal, and social definitions that accrued to the nobility as an estate, urging readers to rethink the cultural and political origins of the genre. By examining works by Novikov, Karamzi...
Entomological Revue
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Soviet Personalities in Biomedicine
6155 biographical entries to selected living Russian biomedical scientists including those in "medicine and health-related research, education, services and administration". Most biographees are from Moscow and Leningrad areas. English-language listing not necessarily indicative of importance. Entries include name, date of birth, education, specialization, career positions, professional activities, honors and awards, and publications (primarily covering 1969-1973). Miscellaneous indexes.
