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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature"”.
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M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's Plays in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Russian Drama
The subject of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s drama and theatre has long been neglected as an area of research both in Russia and in the West. This thesis studies certain characteristic features of the dramatist’s oeuvre; it begins with an attempt to define the term drama. The analysis of …
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Unlocking the psychology of character: imagery of the subconscious in the works of F.M. Dostoevskii
… the works of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii and how it can be used to analyse the psychology of his characters and the author himself. While studies exist on the role of, for example, dreams in Dostoevskii’s works, this thesis aims to comprehensively examine the author’s experience and use of …
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Mystification as a cultural and humoresque phenomenon in modern Czech literature against the background of European cultures (with special reference to Jára da Cimrman)
… of this dissertation is mystification in Czech literature and culture on the background of European culture. In order to define mystification, the dissertation illustrates various types of mystification from ancient times to modern day. The dissertation describes the categorisations that …
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Words, ideas and music : a study of Tchaikovsky's last completed work, the Six Songs, Opus 73
… talents impacted on his song output in general, and on this cycle of songs in particular, providing us also with new insights into his personality. The composer selected and sequenced the poems used for the Opus 73 set to form the cycle of texts himself. The resulting songs are underpinned by a …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
This doctoral thesis examines the representations and dynamics of crime and inner punishment in a range of European literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: F.M. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (Преступлeние и наказaние, 1866), L. Rebreanu’s Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroyd’s …
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Adult readers in the Soviet Union
This thesis is a study of ordinary adult readers and their reading preferences in the USSR in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Chapter One provides background information on Soviet policies towards reading and on the changes in Soviet society which have influenced reading habits over the last 30 …