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Brodsky’s poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translat......more
Brodsky’s poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translat......more
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Word Play traces the history of the relationship between experimental aesthetics and Soviet children’s books, a relation......more
Word Play traces the history of the relationship between experimental aesthetics and Soviet children’s books, a relation......more
Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story illuminates the importance of the interconnectedness b......more
We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. It was first published as an English tran......more
This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a ......more
One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to Fran......more
The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the mos......more
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth centur......more
This book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sources, including ecclesia......more
You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first ce......more
In The Chekhovian Intertext Lyudmila Parts explores contemporary Russian writers’ intertextual engagement with Chekhov a......more
This volume celebrates the achievements of the David Shrayer-Petrov-Jewish-Russian writer, former refusenik activist (an......more
This volume celebrates the achievements of the David Shrayer-Petrov-Jewish-Russian writer, former refusenik activist (an......more
In the eighteenth century, as modern forms of literature began to emerge in Russia, most of the writers producing it wer......more
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by......more
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This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body in re......more
Andrei Bely’s 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century......more
Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fic......more
Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of ......more
Sofya Khagi’s Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of V......more
Sofya Khagi’s Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of V......more
Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word--both the expressive and communicative ca......more
In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformatio......more
This book engages with the conceptual intersections of post-Yugoslav literature, focusing on analyses of postism and tem......more
This book offers significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. In a balanced way reflecting upon ......more
Did affection for members of his family influence Tolstoy’s characterizations in War and Peace? Comparison of the novel ......more
Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers-the Dnieper, Volga, ......more
Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers-the Dnieper, Volga, ......more
Three handwritten lines found inside a 1925 first edition of Ivan Bunin’s Mitya’s Love led to a cache of letters, publis......more
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Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies The Soviet Writers’ Union offered ......more
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Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dos......more
Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dos......more
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"Mandelstam had no teacher," marveled Anna Akhmatova, reflecting on his early maturity and singularity. But Mandelstam h......more
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This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares," wh......more
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Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russia......more
Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as......more
One of the most famous examples of classic world literature. This novel is an epic chronicle of France’s invasion of Rus......more
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analys......more
Nikolai Gogol s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to ent......more
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to ent......more
In this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that......more
In this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that......more
Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously ......more
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With these essays, the Ukrainian Studies community worldwide wishes to celebrate Marko Pavlyshyn on his 65th birthday. T......more
A study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose that examines his most important characters as well as his treatment of Lenin,......more
Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bring......more
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In the early twentieth century, a group of writers banded together in Moscow to create purely original modes of expressi......more
This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most p......more
This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonov’s perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings ......more
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In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literat......more
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Who Wrote That? examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching st......more
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Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution examines responses to the Russian Revolution and the formation of......more
Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature’s emerg......more
"Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature" is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotki......more
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration ......more
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Selected works from the Nobel Laureate To mark the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky s eightieth birthday, FSG is publishing......more
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