Russian Literature and the Classics
Title | Russian Literature and the Classics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter I. Barta |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2013-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317709829 |
Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which the Classics have had on Russian literature at particularly significant junctures - the beginning of the nineteenth century; the age of the great Russian realist novel; the "Silver Age"; Stalin's terror; the "Thaw" after 1956; and the period just before the collapse of Soviet society. In their introductory essay the editors offer an overview of the Classical Tradition. In it, they provide an insight into the contrasting ways in which that tradition manifested itself in the literatures of Western Europe and of Russia.
Translating Great Russian Literature
Title | Translating Great Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy McAteer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2021-01-03 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 100034343X |
Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved, their agendas, and their socio-cultural context, this book, based on extensive original research, examines how Penguin’s decisions and practices when translating and publishing the series played a significant role in deciding how Russian literature would be produced and marketed in English translation. As such the book represents a major contribution to Translation Studies, to the study of Russian literature, to book history and to the history of publishing.
Secret Journal 1836-1837
Title | Secret Journal 1836-1837 PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780916201074 |
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Catriona Kelly |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2001-08-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191577502 |
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm V. Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1998-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521479097 |
Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.
Handbook of Russian Literature
Title | Handbook of Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Terras |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300048681 |
Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction
Title | An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Rzhevsky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2019-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317476867 |
Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historic themes of Russia's civilisation. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theatre, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography and Kandinsky's paintings. This material is supported by introductions, helpful annotations and bibliographies of resources in all media. The reader is intended for use in courses in Russian literature, culture and civilisation, as well as comparative literature.