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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"russian culture"”.
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An Aesthetics of Exclusion: Konstantin Vaginov's Kozlinaia pesn'
… pesn΄ within the meta-text of post-Revolutionary culture, challenging the long accepted view that Vaginov maps out a programme of exclusion from Bolshevik reality in an attempt to preserve the classical ideals of pre-Revolutionary Russian culture from ruin. Vaginov’s ambivalent treatment of such …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
… the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest of space, the normal functioning of Soviet life with clear sources of symbolic authority, the Soviet notion of heroism, etc. These myths have not been replaced with …
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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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Représentations de la violence révolutionnaire dans la littérature et le cinéma français (1928-1986)
… through their plays. Under the influence of Russian culture, Albert Camus was consistent in his rejection of "terrorism". According to him, it could only lead to political tyranny, if successful. Sartre remained an advocate of realpolitik. At first, he underlined the conflict opposing …
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The library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy (1632-1780) in its historical context.
… of the long term development of Ukrainian and Russian culture and education. The Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded as a college in 1632 on the Jesuit model, was the first Orthodox seat of higher education in the East Slav lands. The intellectual milieu formed by the Academy in the seventeenth …
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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War
… modernism, shaped the aesthetics of Russian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. In the twentieth century, Russian culture found itself in a unique situation of separation from the Western world, with which it had largely identified in the previous century. The official …
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Rusijos karo prieš Ukrainą patyrimas Šalčininkų rajone: etniškumas ir tarptautinė dinamika /
… identifying as Poles, is often labeled as pro-Russian in public narratives. This presents a paradox, apparent in today’s geopolitical context, where Lithuania and Poland oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine. This thesis aims to answer the question of how the residents of the district experience the …
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Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990
Russian Jews who left the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and its Successor States after 1989 are considered as one of the best qualified migrants group worldwide. In the preferred countries of destination (Israel, the United States and Germany) they are well-known for cultural self-assertion, strong …
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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
The first post-World War II generation of Soviet Russian writers was faced with a crisis of language even more pervasive and serious than the "Crisis of Symbolism" at the beginning of the 20th century: the level of abstraction and formulaic speech used in public venues had become such that words …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
This thesis examines identity work in the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It takes as its object of study a corpus of songs about the conflict representative of the key political and military actors involved: Ukraine, Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s …