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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Russian Literature"”.
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Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature
… examines representations of authorship in Russian literature from a number of perspectives, including the specific Russian cultural context as well as the broader discourses of romanticism, autobiography, and narrative theory. My main focus is a narrative device I call "the figured author," …
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From the finite to the infinite: Death and altered perspective in Russian literature
"This dissertation concerns a tradition in Russian literature in which there occurs at the moment of death of the hero a change in perspective. This altered perspective in general is from a very narrow, finite vision to a broader, often times infinite vision in which an idea of the author's …
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Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as a Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature
… foolishness in the writings of the leader of Russian Schism Archpriest Avvakum (1620--1682).
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Impact and Influence of Russian Literature Upon German Writers in the Eighteenth and Beginning of Nineteenth Centuries
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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 imagined wealth and real misfortune in nineteenth-century Russian prose
ABSTRACT This dissertation is an endeavor to read Russian classics by concentrating on the economic mechanisms underlying the works' plot development, rather than on the metaphysical and psychological issues involving the protagonists’ disillusionment with life and society. This work analyzes …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… of Russia's Romantic identity during his Russian sojourn between 1824 and 1829. Analysis of Mickiewicz's image as the poetic Other, with respect to his Russian contemporaries, reveals the process that led to the establishment of their individual and national identities during the …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is often retrospectively imported into analyses of …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of Western writers such as E.T.A. …
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Natural and Experimental Infections of THELAZIA CALIFORNIENSIS Price (1930, Nematoda: Thelaziidae) with Descriptions of the Adult and Larval Parasites
… the mode of transmission.</p> <p>A survey of literature revealed that thelaziasie (infestation by <em>Thelazia</em> species) may cause serious pathological changes in the eye and its adnexa, sometimes resulting in blindness. It was found that reports of thelaziasis in the United States were …
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The Paganist Totem Birds in Slavic Folklore: The Black and The White
<p> It is believed that pagan cosmology once ran strong through the Slavic countries and traces are visible through the passed down folklore that spread through the land. While we talk of animals and their representation in folklore, we usually only refer to the Christian written western folklore, …
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Undisciplined bodies: Deviant female sexuality in Russian and Yiddish literatures, 1877-1929
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Turgenev and the question of the Russian artist
This thesis is concerned with the thoughts of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) on the development of the arts in his native country and the specific problems facing the Russian artist. It starts by considering the state of the creative arts in Russia in the early nineteenth century and …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… representing the body and human reproduction in Russian literature underwent a transformation. There was a proliferation of scientific and medical literature, on the one hand, and poetry, on the other hand. As a result, ideologies of family came to be expressed across a new range of textual …
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The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
In order to examine contemporary Russian cinema, this thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… canon of Western masterpieces, re-imagined with Russian literature as a central strain. I interrogate the implied trajectory for Russian belles lettres, culminating unexpectedly in a novel written in English and after fifty years of emigration. My subject is Nabokov, but I use this hermetic …
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Margarita as Supernatural Woman: Bulgakov's Subversion of the Superfluous Man in The Master and Margarita
… definitions of the superfluous man through Russian history through the 19th century up until the Soviet era. The paper then examines Mikhail Bulgakov's subversion of the character trope in <em>The Master and Margarita</em> through his creation of Margarita, the supernatural woman. The author …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
This thesis explores the theme of social paranoia as depicted in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and cultural “Otherness” constructed and reinforced by both nations throughout …
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
My dissertation, “Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period …
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