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Soft Matter - The Poetics Of Weakness In Late Soviet Socialism

by Julia Vaingurt

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 Explores the cultivation of weak subjectivity through modes such as gender subversion, queer holy foolishness, intoxication, madness, and writing disorders like graphomania and writerâ€™s block. Vaingurt also traces the inheritance of a far older tradition within Russian culture of salutary weakness.
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Revolutions In Verse - The Medium Of Russian Modernism

by Isobel Palmer

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 Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. This book spotlights Russian modernist poetsâ€™ and formalist theoristsâ€™ engagement with formal convention, showing how their efforts were tied up with broader attempts in the early Soviet era to understand and articulate the nature of poetry and its most characteristic devices.
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Resonant Dissonance - The Russian Joke In Cultural Context

by Seth Graham

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 The late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes (anekdoty) about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. This work analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment.
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Water'S Edge - Writing On Water

by Akiko Busch, Ashley Dawson, Brenda Hillman, Coral Bracho, Forrest Gander, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Lenore Manderson e Maya Khosla

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 Water is quotidian, ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this element, the authors of Water's Edge reflect on our natural environment: its forms, textures, and stewardship.
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How Women Must Write - Inventing The Russian Woman Poet

by Olga Peters Hasty

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 Studies how women who write poems were invented in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia by women poets themselves, readers who derived poets of their own design from womenâ€™s poems, and male poets who fabricated women and wrote poems on their behalf.
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Subjectivity And Lifeworld In Transcendental Phenomenology

by Sebastian Luft

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 Contributes to discussions about Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in light of the ongoing publication of his manuscripts. The book accounts for the historical origins and influence of the phenomenological project by articulating Husserl's relationship to authors who came before and after him.
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Mimetic Lives - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, And Character In The Novel

by Kitzinger Chloe Kitzinger

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 What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through new readings of a range of novels, Chloe Kitzinger traces a productive tension between mimetic characterization and the author's ambition to transform the reader.
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Bilingual Muse - Self-Translation Among Russian Poets

by Wanner Adrian Wanner

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 Analyses the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal creativity functions in different languages, the conundrum of translation, and the vagaries of bilingual identities.
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Pelevin And Unfreedom - Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics

by Sofya Khagi

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 Offers the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin's sustained Dostoevskian reflections on the philosophical question of freedom and his complex oeuvre and worldview.
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How Women Must Write - Inventing The Russian Woman Poet

by Olga Peters Hasty

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 In How Women Must Write, Olga Peters Hasty takes us from an emphatically male Romantic age to a modernist period preoccupied with women's creativity but also with its containment. In late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, the woman poet was invented: by women poets themselves, by readers who projected gender biases into their poems, and by male poets who wrote posing as women. Examining Karolina Pavlova and Evdokiia Rostopchina, who inspired those writing after them, as well as two women invented by men, Cherubina de Gabriak and Briusov's Nelli, and challenges to male authority by Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, this book shows women as purposeful actors realizing themselves creatively and advancing the woman poet's cause. It will appeal to the general reader and to specialists in Russian literature, women's studies, and cultural history.
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Imperative Of Reliability - Russian Prose On The Eve Of The Novel, 1820s-1850s

by Victoria Somoff

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 Examines the development of nineteenth-century Russian prose and the remarkably swift emergence of the Russian novel. Victoria Somoff identifies an unprecedented situation in the production and perception of the utterance that came to define nascent novelistic fictionality both in European and Russian prose.
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Voiceless Vanguard - The Infantilist Aesthetic Of The Russian Avant-Garde

by Sara Pankenier Weld

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 Winner, 2015 International Research Society in Children's Literature (IRSCL) Book Award Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic, to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art.
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Dostoevsky And The Catholic Underground

by Elizabeth A. Blake

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 While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake's ambitious and learned Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground fills this glaring omission in the scholarship. Previous commentators have traced a wide-ranging hostility in Dostoevsky's understanding of Catholicism to his Slavophilism. Blake depicts a far more nuanced picture. Her close reading demonstrates that he is repelled and fascinated by Catholicism in all its medieval, Reformation, and modern manifestations. Dostoevsky saw in Catholicism not just an inspirational source for the Grand Inquisitor but a political force, an ideological wellspring, a unique mode of intellectual inquiry, and a source of cultural production. Blake's insightful textual analysis is accompanied by an equally penetrating analysis of nineteenth-century European revolutionary history, from Paris to Siberia, that undoubtedly influenced the evolution of Dostoevsky's thought.
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Novel In The Age Of Disintegration - Dostoevsky And The Problem Of Genre In The 1870s

by Kate Holland

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 Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s.
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Silence And The Rest - Verbal Skepticism In Russian Poetry

by Sofya Khagi

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 Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the word in Russian literature and culture. In this ambitious book, Sofya Khagi illuminates a consistent counternarrative, showing how, thoughout its entire history, Russian poetry can be read as an argument for what she calls "verbal skepticism".
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Jews And Ukrainians In Russia'S Literary Borderlands - From The Shtetl Fair To The Petersburg Bookshop

by Amelia M. Glaser

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 Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and cultures interacted with one another and a rich subject for representation in their art. It is commonplace to note the influence of Gogol on Russian literature, but Glaser shows him to have been a profound influence on Ukrainian and Yiddish literature as well. And she shows how Gogol must be understood not only within the context of his adopted city of St. Petersburg but also that of his native Ukraine. As Ukrainian and Yiddish literatures developed over this period, they were shaped by their geographical and cultural position on the margins of the Russian Empire. As distinctive as these writers may seem from one another, they are further illuminated by an appreciation of their common relationship to Russia. Glaser's book paints a far more complicated portrait than scholars have traditionally allowed of Jewish (particularly Yiddish) literature in the context of Eastern European and Russian culture.
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Wonderlands Of The Avant-Garde - Technology And The Arts In Russia Of The 1920s

by Julia Vaingurt

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 Longlist finalist, 2015 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government pursued rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. Despite their utilitarian intentions, however, most avant-gardists rarely created works regarded as practical instruments of societal transformation. Exploring this paradox, Vaingurt claims that the artists' fusion of technology and aesthetics prevented their creations from being fully conscripted into the arsenal of political hegemony. The purposes of avant-garde technologies, she contends, are contemplative rather than constructive. Looking at Meyerhold's theater, Tatlin's and Khlebnikov's architectural designs, Mayakovsky's writings, and other works from the period, Vaingurt offers an innovative reading of an exceptionally complex moment in the formation of Soviet culture.
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Toxic Voices - The Villain From Early Soviet Literature To Socialist Realism

by Laursen Eric Laursen

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 Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground.
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Wages Of Evil - Dostoevsky And Punishment

by Anna Schur

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 Dostoevsky's views on punishment are usually examined through the prism of his Christian commitments. For some, this means an orientation toward mercy; for others, an affirmation of suffering as a path to redemption. Anna Schur incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky's thinking about punishment was shaped not only by his Christian ethics but also by the debates on penal theory and practice unfolding during his lifetime. As Dostoevsky attempts to balance the various ethical and cultural imperatives, he displays ambivalence both about punishment and about mercy. This ambivalence, Schur argues, is further complicated by what Dostoevsky sees as the unfathomable quality of the self, which hinders every attempt to match crimes with punishments. The one certainty he holds is that a proper response to wrongdoing must include a concern for the wrongdoer's moral improvement.
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Singing The Self - Guitar Poetry, Community, And Identity In The Post-Stalin Period

by Rachel S. Platonov

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 This book is a study of a Soviet cultural phenomenon of the 1950s through the 1980s known as guitar poetry-songs accompanied by guitar and considered poetry in much the same way as those of, for example, Bob Dylan. Platonov's is the most comprehensive book in English to date to analyze guitar poetry, which has rarely received scholarly attention outside of Russia. Going well beyond the conventional, text-centered view of guitar poetry as a form of po-litical or artistic dissent, largely a function of the Cold War climate in which it began, Platonov argues for a more complex understanding of guitar poetry as a means of self-invention and community formation. Although grounded in literary studies, the book effectively brings historical, anthropological, and musicological perspectives to bear on an understudied phenomenon of the post-Stalin period.
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Isaac Babel And The Self-Invention Of Odessan Modernism

by Rebecca Jane Stanton

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 In what marks an exciting new critical direction, Rebecca Stanton contends that the city of Odessa-as a canonical literary image and as a kaleidoscopic cultural milieu-shaped the narrative strategies developed by Isaac Babel and his contemporaries of the Revolutionary generation. Modeling themselves on the tricksters and rogues of Odessa lore, Babel and his fellow Odessans Val-entin Kataev and Yury Olesha manipulated their literary personae through complex, playful, and often subversive negotiations of the boundary between autobiography and fiction. In so doing, they cannily took up a place prepared for them in the Russian canon and fostered modes of storytelling that both reflected and resisted the aesthetics of Socialist Realism. Stanton concludes with a rereading of Babel's "autobiographical" stories and examines their leg-acy in post-Thaw works by Kataev, Olesha, and Konstantin Paustovsky.
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Essays On Gogol - Logos And The Russian Word

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 These fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in particular, focusing on specific works, Gogol's own character, and the various approaches to aesthetic, religious, and philosophical issues raised by his writing.
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Enemies From The East? - V. S. Soloviev On Paganism, Asian Civilizations, And Islam

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 As cultural conflicts roil the world, the idea of a "clash of civilizations" has lately taken hold, with commentators from both East and West weighing the religious and political disparities that affect global unity. For all its present currency and urgency, the idea is nothing new. In various contexts V. S. Soloviev (1853-1900), the most distinguished representative of nineteenth-century Russian religious philosophy, anticipated our current global dilemma by more than a hundred years. These essays, presented together for the first time in English, consider from a number of perspectives how a future clash of cultures between East and West threatens human progress toward the harmonic unity that, for Soloviev, represented the ultimate human telos. The six essays comprising this book span Soloviev's publishing career, beginning with "The Mythological Process in Ancient Paganism," written at the age of twenty, and ending with "Muhammad, His Life and Religious Teaching," which appeared four years before Soloviev's death at forty-seven. Throughout, Soloviev grapples with commonalities and differences apparent in the moral frameworks of civilizations since antiquity; and in religious and cultural practices, from Europe through the Middle East to Asia. His probing of the sources of religious morality and political authority in human history reinvigorated Russian intellectual interest in the East/West question in his time and still resonates powerfully in our own.
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Russian Prince In The Soviet State - Hunting Stories, Letters From Exile, And Military Memoirs

by Vladimir Sergeevich Trubetskoi

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 Of a noble and distinguished family disenfranchised by the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Trubetskoi (1892-1937) alone remained in Russia, and suffered the consequences of his decision. His life and experiences are documented in this volume.
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