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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pushkin"”.
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Parody and Burlesque in the Work of A. S. Pushkin: A Critical Study
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Burning flames and seething brains: Passion, imagination, and madness in Karamzin, Pushkin, and Gogol
… among others), I go on to show that Aleksandr Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol—the most celebrated poet and prose writer of the Romantic era in Russia—both depict madness in a rather un-Romantic light. In the second chapter, I discuss Pushkin’s eclectic treatments of madness, identifying classic …
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The Songs and Song Cycles of Sergey Prokofiev (1930--1950)
In his Pushkin songs Op. 73, written on the occasion of the centennial of the legendary Russian poet, Prokofiev continued the romantic nationalist tradition started by Mikhail Glinka. In the folk-song arrangements Op. 104 and duets Op. 106 the imagery deals with the usual universal themes of …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… du temps perdu) (1913-1927), and Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House (Pushkinskii dom) (1978). This study expands Richard Moran’s observations on the role of estrangement in the quest for self-understanding, which seems to become more elusive over time. Soviet scholar Lydia Ginzburg proposed a new …
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Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature
… of the figured author in the following works: 1) Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and Gogol's Dead Souls; 2) Chekhov's "Ariadna"; 3) Bulgakov's "Morphine"; 4) Nabokov's The Gift. In the Conclusion, I offer brief readings of Kharms's "The Old Woman" and "A Fairy Tale" and Zoshchenko's Youth Restored. One …
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Optimal and Feedback Control for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
This dissertation studies hyperbolic partial differential equations for Conservation Laws motivated by traffic control problems. New traffic models for multi-directional flow in two dimensions are derived and their properties studied. Control models are proposed where the control variable is a …
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Tarpukario spaudos Šiauliuose raida: „Momentas“, „Mūsų momentas“, „Įdomus mūsų momentas“ /
… also was published (Fedor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov), translated by publishers.The weekly changed. First of all in number of copies: “Momentas”: 2 000, “Mūsų momentas”: 2 500, “Įdomus mūsų momentas”: 2 500 copies. This shows that the periodical gained popularity. Name of the …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… minor authors: Alexander Sumarokov, Alexander Pushkin, Matvei Kriukovskii, Nestor Kukol’nik, Aleksey Khomiakov, Mikhail Pogodin, Nikolai Chaev, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Aleksey K. Tolstoy. I demonstrate that, from its beginning, modern Russian theatre was not an imitative art form but, rather, …
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Turgenev and the question of the Russian artist
… value he upheld so compellingly in his Pushkin speech of 1880.
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Emergent Self -Similarity of Cluster Coagulation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
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An investigation of the validity of auditing procedures used in mean-per-unit sampling plans
Information from accounting literature indicates that the mean-per-unit (MPU) estimator may not properly control the alpha and beta risks under conditions of non-normality. This study concerns the effect of non-normal distributions on the validity of existing auditing procedures used in MPU …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… or Ardor (1969). This dissertation juxtaposes Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin (1825-32) with Nabokov's two most controversial monuments and investigates Nabokov's ambitions to enter a canon of Western masterpieces, re-imagined with Russian literature as a central strain. I interrogate the implied …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… Ann Radcliffe and Edgar Allen Poe. Writers from Pushkin to Dostoevskii, including the major Symbolists, wrote fiction combining the real with the macabre and supernatural. However, following the inauguration of the Soviet regime and the imposition of Socialist Realism as the official literary …
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Escape Simulation Suite
… is in conjunction with, and closely tied to, Dr Pushkin Kachroo's research on this same topic. The application is designed so that future developers can quickly add to and modify its design to meet their specifications. It is not the goal of this work to provide an application that directly …