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Eugene Oneginby Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen
Oxford University Press, UK 1995; US$ 8.95Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. - ;Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial... more...
Turgenev and the Context of English Literature 1850-1900by Glyn Turton
Routledge 1992; US$ 150.00Examines the cultural outlook in the Anglo-Saxon world, in this period, through an analysis of the reception of Turgenev's work in translation in a number of writers including Henry James and George Gissing. more...
Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russiannessby Sarah Hudspith
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 175.00This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism", and his views on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he considered to be innately Russian. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskiiby W. J. Leatherbarrow
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of Dostoevskii's life and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students. more...
Dostoevsky and the Russian Peopleby Linda J. Ivanits
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 29.00A detailed analysis of Dostoevsky's thought about folklore and his uses of popular culture and imagery in his work. more...
Dostoevskyby Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 35.00Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov --by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography... more...
Anniversary Essays on Tolstoyby Donna Tussing Orwin
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of current scholarship on Tolstoy. more...
Dostoevsky and Kantby Evgenia Cherkasova
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 39.20In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University more...
Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941)by Jan Paul Hinrichs
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 95.20Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijks relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Leipzig (1902-1903), where he followed August Leskiens lectures in Slavic studies. Attention is also paid to the various aspects of Van Wijks... more...
Montaging Pushkinby Alexandra Smith
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 100.80Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkins legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways Russian poets have looked at themselves and at poetic language; that novelisation of poetry is detectable in the major works of poetry that engaged in a creative dialogue with Pushkin, and that polyphonic lyric has been achieved. Alexandra Smith locates significant examples of Pushkins cinematographic cognition of reality, suggesting that such dynamic descriptions of Petersburg helped create a highly original animated image of the city... more...