Slavic Sins of the Flesh
Author: Ronald D. LeBlanc
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 158465824X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pathbreaking "gastrocritical" approach to the poetics of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and their contemporaries
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Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature
Author: Alexei Lalo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9004211195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monograph explores traditions of expressing the body and sexuality (designated as "silence" and "burlesque") throughout Russia's literary history, with a particular focus on how these traditions affect the literary modernization during the Silver Age (1890-1921) and subsequent émigré writing.
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
Author: Yana Hashamova
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317354559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and to what effect female performers, activists, and fictional characters have indulged in such behavior. The chapters in this edited collection argue against the popular perceptions of Slavic cultures as overwhelmingly patriarchal and Slavic women as complicit in their own repression, contextualizing proto-feminist and feminist transgressive acts in these cultures. Each essay offers a close reading of the transgressive texts that women authored or in which they figured, showing how they navigated, targeted, and, in some cases, co-opted these obstacles in their bid for agency and power. Topics include studies of how female performers in Poland and Russia were licensed to be bad (for effective comedy and popular/box office appeal), analyses of how women in film and fiction dare sacrilegious behavior in their prescribed roles as daughters and mothers, and examples of feminist political subversion through social activism and performance art.
The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
Author: Michael R. Katz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0300210396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation of counterstories written by the author’s wife and son in direct response to Tolstoy’s provocative tale, each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work. These radically conflicting tales, accompanied by excerpts from family letters, diaries, notes, and memoirs, provide readers with a vivid and highly revealing case study of the powerful disputes concerning sexuality and gender roles that erupted within the cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Russian, as well as European, society.
The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Author: Alexei Lalo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-10-19
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9004237755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology of Russian erotic writings of 1900 to 1940 consists of texts previously unavailable in English. They all reflect the fascinating, albeit laborious, nature of the "birth of the body" in the Russian literature and culture of the period.
Russian History through the Senses
Author: Matthew P. Romaniello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1474263151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investigates life in Russia from 1700 to the present day via the senses. It examines past experiences of taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to capture a vivid impression of what it was to have lived in the Russian world, so uniquely placed as it is between East and West, during the last three hundred years. The book discusses the significance of sensory history in relation to modern Russia and covers a range of exciting case studies, rich with primary source material, that provide a stimulating way of understanding modern Russia at a visceral level. Russian History through the Senses is a novel text that is of great value to scholars and students interested in modern Russian studies.
Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story
Author: Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-03-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1793629897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 1135
ISBN-13: 1351216007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.
Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York
Author: Milla Fedorova
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1609090853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition from the Russian to the Soviet version. The material on which Milla Fedorova bases her study comprises a curious phenomenon of the waning nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—pilgrimages to America by prominent Russian writers who then created travelogues. The writers' missions usually consisted of two parts: the physical journey, which most of the writers considered as ideologically significant, and the literary fruit of the pilgrimages. Until now, the American travelogue has not been recognized and studied as a particular kind of narration with its own canons. Arguing that the primary cultural model for Russian writers' journey to America is Dante's descent into Hell, Federova ultimately reveals how America is represented as the country of "dead souls" where objects and machines have exchanged places with people, where relations between the living and the dead are inverted.
The Queerness of Childhood
Author: Anna Fishzon
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1137591951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child. Its intention is not only to interrogate the discursive work performed on, and by, the child in these fields, but also to provide a stage for examining how psychoanalysis and queer theory themselves interact, with the understanding that the meeting of these discourses is most generative around the queer time and sexualities of childhood. From the theoretical perspectives of queer theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and gender studies, the chapters explore cultural, aesthetic, and historical forms and phenomena that are aimed at, or are about, children, and that give expression to and make room for the queerness of childhood.
