Russian category: 1194 books
by Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol, Henri Mongault
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Essayez de fixer la foudre, alors que, déluge insoutenable de lumière, elle fend en zigzaguant un ciel couleur de suie : tels sont les yeux d’Annunziata l’Albaine. Tout en elle rappelle les temps antiques où le marbre s’animait sous le ciseau fulgurant des sculpteurs. Ses...
by Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol, Henri Mongault
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Dès que la cloche du séminaire, qui était pendue à la porte du couvent des Confrères, dans la bonne ville de Kiev, faisait entendre à pointe d’aube ses appels sonores, des groupes d’écoliers – grammairiens, rhétoriciens, philosophes, théologiens...
by Aleksandr Púchkin, Nikolai Gógol, Fiódor Dostoiévski
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 24, 2017
A grandeza da Rússia se mede por muitas réguas diferentes. A da geografia, da história, da política, da guerra. Mas talvez nenhuma supere a da literatura. E em particular, a da literatura do século XIX, "que só gênios concebia", tomando assim ao pé da letra este verso de Pessoa –...
Marxism and Form
20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
Nabokov and Nietzsche
Problems and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship – that often frustrate interpretation. It does so by arguing that the philosophy...
by Angelos Georgakis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
An easy way of helping yourself learn a new language is by watching a film with subtitles both in English and in the language you’re trying to learn.
Learning through films is a very powerful method as it involves images, sounds, and emotions. The visual content is engaging and helps comprehension...
by Dominika Gortych
Language: German
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit kritischen künstlerischen und literarischen Manifestationen des kulturellen Shoah-Gedächtnisses in Deutschland und Polen vor dem Hintergrund öffentlicher Debatten. Besonderes Augenmerk legt sie auf die vielfältigen semantischen Dimensionen der Leere als zentraler...
The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen
From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen—the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism—was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon–Khrushchev kitchen debate, Baldwin shows how Nixon turned the kitchen...
by Steve Blandford
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first complete study of one of Britain's leading television writers, Jimmy McGovern. With chapters covering series such as Brookside, Cracker, The Street and Accused, the book also analyses a key period in the history of television drama.
by Catherine Petitjean-Kail
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Calligraphy is the art of beautiful writing. It is a way of contemplating, relaxing and creating; it is also a special attention for who receives it. We live in a world going...
Facets of Domestication
Case Studies in Polish-English and English-Polish Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Lawrence Venuti’s distinction between foreignizing and domesticating translation is a powerful concept in translation studies. This volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation and presents case studies of film, prose, poetry, and non-fiction,...
I Love to Help
English Ukrainian Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
English Ukrainian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Ukrainian as their second language.
Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy's sandcastle is destroyed by the wave, they work...
Trasjanka und Suržyk gemischte weißrussisch-russische und ukrainisch-russische Rede
Sprachlicher Inzest in Weißrussland und der Ukraine?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Weißrussland und die Ukraine gelten als zweisprachig. Millionen von Menschen in beiden Ländern sprechen aber oft weder Weißrussisch bzw. Ukrainisch noch Russisch in Reinform. Vielmehr praktizieren sie eine gemischte weißrussisch-russische bzw. ukrainisch-russische Rede. Diese Mischungen aus genetisch...
Fighting Words
Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped...