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  • Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century

    A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought

    par J. Laurence Black ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Best Russian Short Stories

    par Thomas Seltzer ...

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  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

    An Essay in the Old Criticism

    par George Steiner ...
    The first book of criticism from the acclaimed author of After Babel—a "provocative and probing" look at Russian literature's most influential writers ( The New York Times)."Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters ... En savoir plus

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  • What Is to Be Done?

    par Nikolai Chernyshevsky ...
    Traduit par Michael R. Katz ...
    No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.―The Southern ReviewAlmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • The "Domostroi"

    Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible

    par Carolyn Johnston Pouncy ...
    Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic StudiesA manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

    par Alexander Medvedkin ...
    Traduit par Nikita Lary, Jay Leyda ...
    Collections series Cinema and Modernity
    Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of ... En savoir plus

    $47.29 CAD

  • The Most Dangerous Art

    Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution

    par Donald Loewen ...
    At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional trajectory that corresponds to the intensity of the social and state pressures that threatened ... En savoir plus

    $62.29 CAD

  • Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley

    A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia

    par Vladimir Nalivkin, Maria Nalivkina ...
    Traduit par Mariana Markova ...
    Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During their six years in Nanay, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language, befriended her neighbors, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture

    par Danusha Goska ...
    In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    par Ryszard Nycz ...
    Traduit par Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Collections Livre 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge

    State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine

    par Mayhill Fowler ...
    In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    par Earl E. Fitz ...
    Collections Livre 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... En savoir plus

    $142.69 CAD