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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to...
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Physical Pain and Justice

Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel

by Gary Rosenshield
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

It has been said that all great literature is about suffering. But before the twentieth century, physical pain, one of the most primal forms of human suffering, has rarely been represented on the stage and in fiction. But when it is foregrounded in works of literature, it is not only the most dramatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to...
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Russian Formalism

A Metapoetics

by Peter Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism...
Cover of Complete Romance Poetry Russian Realism
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014

A Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Contents Fathers...
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by Maksim Gorky, Maxim Gorky, Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

Primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Creatures That Once Were Men (1918) The...
Cover of Вернуть любимого и преодолеть кризис в отношениях. Get your loved one back and overcome crisis in relationship (Russian Edition).
by Ирина Митч
Language: Russian
Release Date: November 27, 2015

Книга «Вернуть любимого и преодолеть кризис» для тех, кто ищет простые и надежные способы восстановления отношений с близким человеком.Здесь представлена полная...
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Dermo!

The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used

by Edward Topol
Language: Russian
Release Date: August 1, 1997

Not even Tolstoy would dare use the eyebrow-raising Russian you'll find in this wickedly humorous language guide by one of Russia's bestselling novelists today. Whether you're traveling to Russia for the first time or you are a student of the language, this indispensable book is your entree to the...
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by Gilad Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

"I like Animals English - Russian" is a list of 50 animal images and their names in English and Russian. This is the perfect book for kids who love animals. With this book children can build their animal vocabulary and start to develop word and picture association.  
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Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use

Conjunctions, Interjections, Parenthetical Words, Particles, and Prepositions

by Marina Rojavin, Alexander Rojavin
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019

Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use is a collection of 463 prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections, and parenthetical words. This book provides a semantic, syntactic, and stylistic analysis of each word, accompanying the explanation with examples of the word’s usage in discourse...
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The Superstitious Muse

Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically

by David Bethea
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019

For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography...
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Red Britain

The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture

by Matthew Taunton
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019

Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the conceptual,...
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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

An Essay in the Old Criticism

by George Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

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...
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Captives

An anthology of Russian stories

by Olga Slavnikova, Irina Muravyova
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

We are all in some sense captives in today's world: captives of a political system, of circumstances, of our obligations or our illusions, to say nothing of those who are captives in a literal sense. The world seems to be full of misplaced people trapped in captivity of one kind or another, sometimes...
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