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Author: Andrey Bely
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780810116269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Russian novel which looks at childhood, seen through the eyes of a boy from the age of three to five years, in the 1800s.
Author: Gerald Janecek
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1400852854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1628974362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Founded on the concept of “making strange,” it lays bare the inner workings of fiction—especially the works of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Sterne, Dickens, Bely and Rozanov—and imparts a new way of seeing, of reading, and of interacting with the world.
Author: John E. Malmstad
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1501745271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo figure in turn-of-the-century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (1880–1934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of the major writers of this century, Bely subjected the received standards of truth and value in literature to a penetrating and radical critique. After a long period of suppression under the Stalinist regime, Bely has become the object of growing critical attention in both East and West. Originating in a symposium held in 1984 under the auspices of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on the fiftieth anniversary of Bely's death, this volume includes ten essays by established scholars of modern Russian literature, including leading Western specialists on Bely. The essays survey Bely's major works in all genres, summarize present research on Bely, reassess critical approaches, and offer fresh interpretations. Analytic summaries of primary works make the essays fully accessible to non-Slavist readers.
Author: Victor Terras
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780300048681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Author: Stephen C. Hutchings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-12-11
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0521580099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as neutral and normative, the other encapsulated in the Orthodox emphasis on iconic embodiment. Hutchings identifies early 'Decadent' formulations of byt as a milestone after which writers from Chekhov to Rozanov sought to affirm the iconic potential hidden in Russian realism's critique of representationalism. Provocative, yet careful, textual analyses reveal a consistent urge to redefine art's function as one not of representing life, but of transfiguring the everyday.
Author: Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 1136601562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.
Author: Hilary L. Fink
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780810116108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study focuses on the Russian modernist attraction to Bergson's notions of duration and intuition, his unbridled optimism in both art and life, and his belief in the individual's creative power.
Author: Elizabeth Goodenough
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780814324318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Using various critical approaches and disciplines, 20 contributors examine the representation of children in literature from the Renaissance to the present. The essays cover problems in imitation of speech and dialect, uses of narrative voice, creative development of child writers, and shifting cultural conceptions of childhood, illustrating the way children's voices have often been mediated, modified, or appropriated by adult writers." -- Book News, Inc.
Author: J. D. Elsworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-09-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0521247241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the development of Audrey Bely's technique as a novelist from the early experimental Symphonies, to the last novel, Masks.
