The Imperial Sublime
The Imperial Sublime

Author: Harsha Ram

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2006-03-31

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780299181949

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The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.

Creating the Empress
Creating the Empress

Author: Vera Proskurina

Publisher: Ars Rossica

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781618118059

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In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.

We Japanese
We Japanese

Author: Frederick De_Garis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 895

ISBN-13: 1136183744

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'We Japanese', is a collection of answers to questions that the author as a hotel manager in Japan has answered for hotel guests over the years. He was the manager for over 28 years at the Fujiya Hotel at Miyanoshita. These are naturally questions concerning those things which are different in Japan from the countries from which the visitors come. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The First Epoch
The First Epoch

Author: Luba Golburt

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0299298140

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In the shadow of Pushkin's Golden Age, Russia's eighteenth-century culture was relegated to an obscurity hardly befitting its actually radical legacy. Why did nineteenth-century Russians put the eighteenth century so quickly behind them? How does a meaningful present become a seemingly meaningless past? Interpreting texts by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Viazemsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and others, Luba Golburt finds surprising answers.