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Aroutunova

Lives in Letters: Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya and her Correspondence

The letters to Princess Volkonskaya published in this book reflect nearly thirty years of Russian and European history: the Napoleonic Wars, victory and the subsequent upheavals, the religious struggles between the Russian Orthodox Church and the growing...

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Rollberg, Peter

And Meaning for a Life Entire

CONTENTS Foreword 9 Letter from James H. Billington 13 Letter from Strobe Talbott 15 A Bibliography of the Publications by Charles A...

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Shaw, J. Thomas

Pushkin's Poetics of Unexpected

Pushkin's unexpected nonrhymes and rhymes consitute an important part of his poetics of the unexpected; however, hitherto they have never been studied in any detail, and, indeed have only rarely been even touched upon. This study analyzes...

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Loseff & Scherr

A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place contains papers, from a conference dedicated to Akhmatova's centennial, which focus not on her poetry by itself, but on the place where she spent her formative years, Tsarskoe Selo (now, of course, called Pushkin), and on the poetic...

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Kustanovich, Konstantin

The Artist and the Tyrant: Vassily Aksenov’s Works in the Brezhnev Era

Vassily Aksenov is generally recognized as one of the most prominent and important writers of the post-Stalinist period in Russian literature. He started the revival of experimentation in artistic technique after thirty years of the mandatory, but...

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Mihailovich, Vasa D.

Second Supplement to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English

This volume continues and supplements the Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English 1593-1980, published by Slavica in 1984, and the First Supplement to the Comprehensive Bibliography (published by Slavica in 1989). Its...

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Rudinsky, Norma L.

Incipient Feminists

Part history and part anthology, this close study of contemporary journal articles, letters, and poetry shows the extraordinary tension of the alternately competing and coalescing drives of nationalism and feminism among the Slovaks in...

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Silbajoris, Rimvydas

Tolstoy's Aesthetics

Among the many paradoxes in Tolstoy's thought and action there is the dichotomy between his tremendous authority as an artist and his supposedly inconsequential, wrong-headed views on aesthetics, expressed in the treatise What is Art? The...

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Bogert, Ralph

The Writer as Naysayer

Bogert's book studies the most culturally and politically influential Yugoslav intellectual of the twentieth century with emphasis on interpreting this many-sided modernist, the most prolific and arguably the most important author writing in...

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Mann, Robert

Lances Sing

Robert Mann reexamines the hypothesis that the Slovo o polku Igoreve is the work of a highly literate poet and concludes that the Slovo is more likely the text of a 12th-century court song. This study introduces a large number of new folkloric...

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Perkowski, Jan

The Darkling

Some years ago, while pursuing folklore field work in eastern Canada, the author stumbled upon an active vampire cult. The interest aroused by this discovery led to a series of invited lectures and eventually the establishment of a college course...

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Scherr

Russian Verse Theory

Contents Foreword 9 Zsuzanna Bjorn Andersen The Concept of "Lyric Disorder" 11 James Bailey The Metrical Invariant in a Russian Lyric Folk Song 23 Jerzy...

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