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  • Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes

    by Irene Masing-Delic ...
    This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gorkii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between culture and civilization and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is barbaric. Another stance advocates the synthesis of sense and sensibility and the vision of Apollo ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    by Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, J.A.E. Curtis, Radislav Lapushin, Catherine O’Neil, Alexandra Smith, Alexander Spektor, Jonathan Stone, Angela Brintlinger0, Irene Masing-Delic1, Caryl Emerson2 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life

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  • Madame Bovary + Salammbô + Sentimental Education (3 Unabridged Classics)

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  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

    by Mikhail Bakhtin ...
    Series series Theory and History of Literature
    This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle. ... Read more

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  • The Idiot

    by John Kendrick Bangs ...
    Series series Svenska Ljud Classica
    The Idiot is anything but, yet that is how his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness. And yet, it starts to get under their skin, because when you are beneath contempt, you can say what you please. Funny, clever, poignant and as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago, this is the first of John ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Husband

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    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Eternal Husband (The Permanent Husband) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine. The novella's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husband of his deceased former lover.[Analysis]The story starts in medias res. Details about Velchaninov's adulterous past are revealed gradually.The ... Read more

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  • Poor Folk

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Poor Folk , sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try ... Read more

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  • The Bond of the Furthest Apart

    Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

    by Sharon Cameron ...
    In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, ... Read more

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  • Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II

    by Vera Proskurina ...
    In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects ... Read more

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  • Tolstoy On War

    Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"

    Edited by Rick McPeak, Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Russian Novel

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    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 ... Read more

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