Author: Linda J. Ivanits
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Grotesque in F. K. Sologub's Novel The Petty Demon
Author: Linda J. Ivanits
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Life Is Elsewhere
Author: Anne Lounsbery
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501747940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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 large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers—why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501747940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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 large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers—why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.
Alexander Lipson
Author: Alexander Lipson
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Russian and Slavic Literature
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Slavica Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Slavica Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Author:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Slavic Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Coverage of Russian, Eurasian and East European issues.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Coverage of Russian, Eurasian and East European issues.
Studies in Honor of Xenia Gąsiorowska
Author: Lauren G. Leighton
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Russian Folk Belief
Author: Linda J. Ivanits
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.