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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Slavic literature"”.
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Negotiating the Scope of Postwar Stalinist Novels
… by demonstrating how works of official Soviet literature enjoy more scope for individuality and innovation than is commonly acknowledged by structuralist or dissident readings. It examines how three Stalin Prize-winning novels use the material of recent history, their predecessor works, the …
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The Rise of Insider Iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-Language Literature and Film, 1921-1935
… were represented in Russian-language film and literature in the early Soviet period. By analyzing the work of writers and filmmakers as well as the ideological and artistic constraints that they faced, I explore not only depictions of these spaces, but also the biographies of several of their …
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
This dissertation characterizes the particular brands of irony at work in Gogol's fiction over the course of his career and analyzes how they are generated, how they act upon readers, and how they relate to the broader aesthetic and ideological project to which Gogol ultimately dedicated himself - …
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Leskov into English: On Translating Soboryane (Church Folks)
After discussing variant approaches to translation and the characteristics of Nikolai Leskov's prose, the study analyses the language in excerpts selected from Leskov's novel-length chronicle, Soboryane. The samples illustrate the range of Leskov's prose, including straight exposition, archaic …
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Liompa
Shot in Russian with English subtitles, Liompa is a fifteen-minute dramatic film based on the 1928 short story by Russian novelist Yuri Olesha (1899-1960). "Liompa" explores the relationship between an individual and the things that he owns or desires to own throughout his life. The film looks at …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
This dissertation investigates the use of sentimentalist tropes in the work of Viktor Shklovsky, Nikolai Karamzin, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to draw conclusions regarding the overlaps between eighteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic imperatives. Specifically, it looks at love's literary …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… poet, all at once a representative of Western literature and culture, a Lithuanian bard, a Slavic Byron, and a poet who was also close to Russia's cultural and poetic tradition. Special consideration is also given to Mickiewicz as the Other in Pushkin's poetic paradigm "bard vs. prophet", …
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On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition
This dissertation takes as its starting point Leo Tolstoy's famous contention that the works of the Russian literary canon represent "deviation[s] from European forms." It is envisioned as a response to (or an elaboration upon) critical works that address the unique rise, formation, and poetics of …
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Color, Line, and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction
… drawing from the numerous qualities of spatial literature it contains as well as its inclusion of a rich color palette and various ekphrastic passages. I begin my discussion of this “painterly” aesthetic in an examination of the 1857 short story “Lucerne.” I then trace the shifts in Tolstoy’s …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
Russian Symbolists struggled to write a counter-narrative to the prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. The Symbolists invested their …
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Noble Farmers: The Provincial Landowner in the Russian Cultural Imagination
… set of texts (mainstream periodicals, advice literature and fiction) that responded to a cultural need to provide normative models for the Russian nobleman's domestic life and self, following the 1762 Manifesto that freed the gentry from obligatory state service. The material suggests that a …
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Tolstoy and Zola: Trains and Missed Connections
"Tolstoy and Zola" juxtaposes the two writers to examine the evolution of the novel during the late nineteenth century. The juxtaposition is justified by the literary critical debates that were taking place in Russian and French journals during the 1870s and 1880s, concerning Tolstoy and Zola. In …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… 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 author to …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
… space that simply ignored the demands of Soviet literature, cleaving instead to the much older tradition of humane letters. For the purpose of establishing the development of the Avvakumites into poets of the humane letters who absolutely rejected the language and dictates of Soviet Realism, I …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
… and Wolfgang Kayser (The Grotesque in Art and Literature), which describe the grotesque as an estrangement of the familiar. Kayser argues that the grotesque distorts the world as we know it; Bakhtin supplements this definition by suggesting that grotesque estrangement leads to a degradation of …