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  • Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction

    A comparative study

    by Neil Cornwell ...
    This book takes four stories by the Russian Romantic author Vladimir Odoevsky to illustrate ‘pathways’, developed further by subsequent writers, into modern fiction. Featured here are: the artistic (musical story), the rise of science fiction, psychic aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel.The four chapters also examine the development of the featured categories by a wide ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • The absurd in literature

    by Neil Cornwell ...
    Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.The absurd ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Reference Guide to Russian Literature

    Edited by Neil Cornwell ...
    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. ... Read more

    $735.99 CAD

  • A Hero of Our Time

    by Mikhail Lermontov ...
    Translated by Martin Parker, Neil Cornwell ...
    On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and arrogance with ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

    Edited by Neil Cornwell ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years.The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Aspies on Mental Health

    Speaking for Ourselves

    by Natasha Goldthorpe, Christopher Wilson, Lynette Marshall, Janet Christmas, Debbie Allan, E Veronica Bliss, Chris Smedley, Melanie Smith, Stephen William Cornwell, Neil Shepherd, Alexandra Brown, Anne Henderson, Stephen Jarvis, Wendy Lim, Chris Mitchell, Anthony Sclafani ...
    Series series Insider Intelligence
    People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family, friends and also for mental health professionals.Touching on everything from ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
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    From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for his participation in a utopian socialist discussion group. The account he wrote after his ... Read more

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  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
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    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

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  • Russian Literature

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    by Catriona Kelly ...
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    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 ... Read more

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  • The Queen Of Spades: (Pique Dame) (Mobi Classics)

    by Alexander Pushkin,H. Twitchell (Translator) ...
    The Queen of Spades (Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avariciousness. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1834. It was turned into the opera The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

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  • Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney ...
    Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of ... Read more

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