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  • Russian Literature, 1988-1994

    The End of an Era

    by Norman Shneidman ...
    Series series Heritage
    The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of expression and publication. State publishing houses, now self-supporting enterprises, stopped printing money-losing books and turned to foreign detective novels and erotic literature, effecting a considerable ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Russian Literature, 1995-2002

    On the Threshold of a New Millennium

    by Norman Shneidman ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

    An Essay in the Old Criticism

    by George Steiner ...
    The first book of criticism from the acclaimed author of After Babel—a "provocative and probing" look at Russian literature's most influential writers ( The New York Times)."Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters ... Read more

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  • Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture

    by Danusha Goska ...
    In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series Book 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Read more

    $142.69 CAD

  • Sienkiewicz’s Bodies

    Studies of Gender and Violence

    by Ryszard Koziolek, Jaroslaw Fazan ...
    Series Book 10 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    Sienkiewicz’s Bodies focuses on the work of the most popular Polish writer from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the surprising success of Sienkiewicz’s writing in relation to the dissection of optimistic illusion that takes place during a reading of its cruel prose. Sienkiewicz is seen as something more than a juggler of genius in narrative prose. ... Read more

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    by Ryszard Nycz ...
    Translated by Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Book 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Read more

    $64.59 CAD

  • The Holocaust in the Central European Literatures and Cultures

    Problems of Poetization and Aestheticization

    by Reinhard Ibler, Katarzyna Adamaczak, Anna Artwinska, Agata Firlej, Jiri Holy, Hana Hribkova, Arkadiusz Morawiec, Andreas Ohme, Skibska Anna Maria, Marta Skubalova0, Hans-Christian Trepte1, Christiane Weber2, Charlotte Kitzinger3, Urszula Kowalska4, Sascha Feuchert5, Sarka Sladovnikova6, Anja Golebiowski7, Štěpán Balík8 ...
    This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least ‘unliterary’, prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the topic. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards literarization, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Idiot 

    A Masterpiece of Psychological and Philosophical Fiction

    by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ...
    What happens when a pure and kind soul enters a world driven by power, greed, and deception?" Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is a timeless literary masterpiece exploring innocence, morality, and human nature in a corrupt society. This deeply emotional and thought-provoking novel follows Prince Myshkin, a nobleman whose honesty and compassion make him an outsider in a world filled with ambition and ... Read more

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  • The Enchanter

    Nabokov and Happiness

    by Lila Azam Zanganeh ...
    Discovering happiness in reading the work of an extraordinary writer.The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

  • Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

    by Margarita Marinova ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
    In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings, archival materials, and personal correspondence of well ... Read more

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  • My Life

    by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya ...
    Translated by John Woodsworth, Arkadi Klioutchanski ...
    The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya’s My Life memoirs.My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works of 2010 by The Globe and Mail.It has also won an honourable mention in the Biography and Autobiography category ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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