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Routledge Companion to Russian Literatureby Neil Cornwell
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95An engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years covering the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and exploring all the forms that have made it so famous. more...
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Ageby Stephen Hutchings
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 39.95This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era. more...
Dialogics of Critiqueby Michael Gardiner
Routledge 1992; US$ 170.00As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book fulfils the demand. more...
Dialogismby Michael Holquist
Routledge 2002; US$ 30.95Michael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. more...
Christianity in Bakhtinby Ruth Coates; Catriona Kelly
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work. more...
A History of Women's Writing in Russiaby Adele Marie Barker; Jehanne M. Gheith
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00A comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Contributors have addressed the surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works. more...
Russian Literatureby Catriona Kelly
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 12.99Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, this book explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. The book uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare', as a recurring example, as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after him, whether poets or novelists. more...
Fallacy Of Silver Ageby Omry Ronen
Gordon and Breach 1997; US$ 24.95While rigorously living up to the best traditions of literary-historical scholarship, the author manages to present his material in a light-hearted and entertaining way which will fascinate both the scholar of Russian literature and the interested observer of Russian culture alike. In this highly original study, Omry Ronnen critically examines the term "Silver Age", which over the years has gained such wide currency among historians and connoisseurs of 20th century Russian culture. The author traces the origin and the controversial development of what he condemns as an influential misnomer. "I do not know who was the first to use this appellation, on whom the blame for launching it falls," lamented the late Russian-American literary historian,... more...
Materializing Bakhtinby Craig Brandist; Galin Tihanov
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 128.00This volume brings together nine essays that examine the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics. They explore the historical context and relevance of Bakhtinian thought at the end of the 20th century. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetryby Michael Wachtel
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century to the present. more...