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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Literature, Slavic and East European"”.
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Peizazh u tvorakh Mykhaila Kotsiubyns'koho
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Proper names in Pamvo Berynda's "Leksikon slavenorosskij i imen tlkovanie" of 1627
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Language and style of Olha Kobylianska
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"Numerological Code in Dostoevsky's ""Crime and Punishment"
… that follow are devoted to an analysis of Crime and Punishment, in which certain numbers are repeated throughout the text. These repetitions are not random, they are carefully planned numerological devices used symbolically by Dostoevsky to underline his major themes. This study reveals the …
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From Behind the Curtain: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Gender and Age Character Types in Late Soviet and Post -Soviet Contexts
… tales, in particular her Wild Animal Fairy Tales and Adventures of Barbie collections. Read within the context of the fall of communism and the rising influence of Western consumer culture, these tales reveal a process in which traditional identity categories, on both individual and national …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… the changes that took place in the popular and ideologically ""safest"" genre of historical novel in the post-Stalin period in two Soviet literatures, Russian and Ukrainian. In this comparative study the author analyzes a set of novels by Russian and Ukrainian writers which center on Kievan …
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The Novels of Mark Aldanov as Representative of the Genres of Bildungsromane, Historical and Philosophical Novels
… work of Mark Aldanov attracted attention of West European, American and later Soviet and Russian reading public and critics, many aspects of his literary work still remain insufficiently-researched, and the personal archives of the writer were largely ignored. One such aspect which escaped …
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"The Evolution of the ""New People"" in the Prose of Zinaida Hippius"
… periods---Aesthetic, Metaphysical, Apocalyptic, and the Emigre period , and accordingly, the dissertation is organized into four main chapters with an introduction and a conclusion.
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The Genesis and Variations of the Image of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century: Breaking the Code of Chivalry
… morphology of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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The Second Wave of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond
In Chapter I, I examine the writings and activities of Nikolai Glazkov (1919--79), who must be considered the single most important avant-garde author of the 1940's. In Chapter II, I discuss various avant-garde groups, as well as independent authors who sprang up at the beginning of the Thaw. I …
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Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Identity in the European Novel
… the adulterous heroine of the nineteenth-century European novel as a symbol of national anxieties. The gendering of a nation or a nation-like collectivity as female has a long history, evident in expressions such as ""Mother Earth"" or ""Mother Russia"" and in myths considered foundational to …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
"As such, the Tartu School stands as a revealing case for understanding the informal public sphere, subversive practices and myths, as well as patterns of elite struggles in Soviet academia and society. Beyond having purely historical significance, the findings of this dissertation have …
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Composing the Sacred in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: History and Christianity in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir
… the architect of Soviet glasnost, came to power, and the year Schnittke suffered from the first of five strokes. The Concerto is scored for a cappella mixed chorus, and its text is the work of the tenth-century Armenian monk and poet, Gregor Narekatsi (951--1003). The work is demanding and …
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Writers of the Nation: Intellectual Identity in Bulgaria, 1939--1953
… intellectuals, who were purged from national and cultural memory after WWII. By focusing on the way in which these writers, their associates and friends negotiated social expectations of service to the nation with personal career decisions, material demands and aesthetic and political …
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Pasternak's Lyrical Creativity: The Formative Years, 1912-1922
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… Tolstoj is, perhaps, Russia's most Romantic poet and, as N. Kotljarevskij wrote in the nineteenth century, its most religious writer. Tolstoj had the hubris to advance a world view, to re-write Dante and the Bible and to offend every political and literary interest. Touched by Catholicism as had …
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The Works of Mikhail A. Bulgakov: A Search for the Ideal Hero (Russia)
Underlying the wonderfully varied and often delightfully comic oeuvre of Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a stern intent: to examine, protest, and ultimately (particularly in his last, most challenging novel, The Master and Margarita), to answer society's many abuses of the individual. …
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N. V. Gogol' and the Baroque (Russia)
… between the writings of N. V. Gogol' and Baroque literature. While some scholars labeled elements of Gogol''s writings as "Baroque," a systematic comparison of Gogol''s works and Baroque literature has never been done. In order to make this comparison, the dissertation begins with a …
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P. I. Mel'nikov-Pecherskii in the History of the Russian Novel
Both opponents and admirers of of Mel'nikov-Pecherskii's literary works agree that he gave a precise description of everyday life, religious ceremonies, customs and traditions of Old Believers in the Transvolga district.
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The View of Man in The Poetry of Vjaceslav Ivanov
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