Filter by
Landmarks Revisited : The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On
The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. It was published in 1909, under the editorship of Mikhail Gershenzon, as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was deemed by all the Landma…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618117021
- Collation
- 324 halaman
- Series Title
- Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
- Call Number
- 800 AIZ l
First Words : On Dostoevsky's Introductions
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and A Gentle Creature. Despite his clever attempts to call his readers' attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the fi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618114822
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 BAG f
Word and Image in Russian History Essays in Honor of Gary Marker
''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618119490
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Russian Monarchy
This new volume from the author of Scenarios of Power explores the effect of the symbolic and mythical representations of the Russian imperial government on law, administrative practice, and concepts of national and imperial identities throughout centuries of monarchical rule. Richard Wortman demonstrates how the ideologies behind such representations shaped the thought patterns not only of the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618118547
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Jaan Kross and Russian Culture
Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian writer Jaan Kross (1920–2007) with Russian literature and culture. It includes contributions on the poetics of some of Kross' works ("The Czar's Madman", "Professor…
- Edition
- Vol. 2.0
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-9949-32-202-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Acta Slavica Estonica II : Works on Russian and Slavic Philology, Literary Criticism VIII
- Call Number
- 491.7 JAA
Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781934843680
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 LEV e
Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky : Science, Religion, Philosophy
Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618115263
- Collation
- 424 halaman
- Series Title
- Ars Rossica
- Call Number
- 100 EVD d
World Literatures Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange
"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange. As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350782
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Charms of the Cynical Reason : The Trickster's Transformation in Soviet and P…
The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781934843451
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 LIP c
A Difficult Neighbourhood Essays on Russia and East-CentralEurope since Worl…
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow’s relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes some backward glances at the violent suppression of national life in the ‘bloodlan…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760460617
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography