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  • The Pushkin Project

    Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth

    by David Bethea ...
    Series series Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
    “Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high school students in Chicago. … Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)The Pushkin Project tells the story of how a Russian studies professor changes course late in his career by reeducating himself in evolutionary thought and founding a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically

    by David Bethea ...
    For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the mythopoetic thinking that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of erasure and the question of how writers, and poets in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Russian Literature and Cognitive Science

    by Tom Dolack, Denis Akhapkin, David Bethea, Ekaterina Chelpanova, Brett Cooke, Kelly Knickmeier Cummings, Katherina B. Kokinova, Anna A. Lazareva, Julia Lerner, Irina Meier0, Sarah B. Mohler1, Michal Mrugalski2, Anna Novikova3, Angelina Rubina4, Dr David S. Danaher5 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Russian Literature and Cognitive Science applies the newest insights from cognitive psychology to the study of Russian literature. Chapters focus on writers and cultural figures from the Golden to the Internet Age including: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sologub, Bely, Akhmatova, Nabokov, Baranskaya, and contemporary online discourse. The authors draw on a wide array of cognitively-informed fields ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Unacknowledged Legislators

    Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel

    Edited by Lazar Fleishman, David M. Bethea, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary ... Read more

    $157.99 USD

  • Barcelona Prose

    by Efim Etkind, David Bethea ...
    Translated by Helen Reeve, Joyse Man, Julia Trubikhina ...
    Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vladimir Nabokov in Context

    Edited by Siggy Frank, David M. Bethea ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Pushkin

    A Writer’s Biography

    by Yuri Lotman, David M. Bethea ...
    Translated by Ilya Nemirovsky ...
    This volume presents a chronological biography of Alexander Pushkin, often held to be Russia’s national poet and writer. Lotman pays special attention to the development of Pushkin’s social and political thought throughout the poet’s life, painting a picture of the poet as having been deeply in tune with and even involved in the most pressing socio-political challenges of his age, such as the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • All the Same The Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition

    by Caryl Emerson, David Bethea ...
    All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The Enigma of Isaac Babel

    Biography, History, Context

    Edited by Gregory Freidin ...
    A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Kremlin Wives

    The Secret Lives of the Women Behind the Kremlin Walls—From Lenin to Gorbachev

    by Larissa Vasilieva ...
    Translated by Cathy Porter ...
    For over seventy years the Kremlin was the bastion of the all-powerful Soviet rulers. A great deal is known about the men who held millions of fates in their iron grip, yet little is known about the women-the wives and mistresses-who shared their lives. They took part in the Revolution and its aftermath, bore children, and suffered abuse; some were arrested and sent to Siberia, driven to suicide, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • George Steiner at The New Yorker

    by George Steiner ...
    An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to “the common reader.” He possesses a famously ... Read more

    $15.99 USD