Author: Pavel Petrovich Bazhov
Publisher:
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Category : Children's stories, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Pavel Petrovich Bazhov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828520423
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Василий Александрович Сухомлинский
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ISBN: 9780714717487
Category : Education
Languages : ru
Pages : 436

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Author: Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433721X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.

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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson

Author: Marina Balina
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135865566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children’s culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society.

Author: Marina Balina
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810120321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Author: Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.)
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Author: Queen Marie (consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Janko Lavrin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317376455
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.