A Survey of Russian Literature, With Selections
A Survey of Russian Literature, With Selections

Author: Isabel Florence Hapgood

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood: An exploration of the rich and diverse world of Russian literature, "A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections" provides literary and historical context for some of Russia's most famous writers and works, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin. Hapgood's comprehensive analysis offers valuable insight into the cultural and literary traditions of Russia. Key Aspects of the Book "A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections": Comprehensive Survey: The book provides a comprehensive survey of Russian literature, including historical and cultural context and selections from notable writers. Writers and Works: Hapgood explores the lives and works of some of Russia's most famous writers, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin. Cultural Context: The book provides valuable insight into the cultural and literary traditions of Russia, shaping readers' understanding of Russian history and society. Isabel Florence Hapgood was an American writer, translator, and interpreter who specialized in Russian literature and culture. Her translations of works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, as well as her travel memoir "Russian Rambles," helped introduce Russian culture and literature to a wider audience.

A History of Russian Literature
A History of Russian Literature

Author: Victor Terras

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9780300049718

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Surveys Russian literature from the eleventh century to the present, set within the context of political, social, religious, and philisophical developments

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Catriona Kelly

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-08-23

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0191577502

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This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Handbook of Russian Literature
Handbook of Russian Literature

Author: Victor Terras

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780300048681

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Profiles 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

An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction
An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction

Author: Nicholas Rzhevsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 1317476867

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Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historic themes of Russia's civilisation. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theatre, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography and Kandinsky's paintings. This material is supported by introductions, helpful annotations and bibliographies of resources in all media. The reader is intended for use in courses in Russian literature, culture and civilisation, as well as comparative literature.

Monumental Propaganda
Monumental Propaganda

Author: Vladimir Voinovich

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0307426939

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From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events. Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, and at all costs, centers her life on her private icon. Voinovich’s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale–equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule. The New York Times Book Review called his classic work, The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, “a masterpiece of a new form–socialist surrealism . . . the Soviet Catch-22 written by a latter-day Gogol." In Monumental Propaganda we have the welcome return of a truly singular voice in world literature.

Novels, Tales, Journeys
Novels, Tales, Journeys

Author: Alexander Pushkin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0307959635

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From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.