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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 Russias civilisation Each text has resonance throughout the arts in Rublevs icons Meyerholds theatre Mousorgskys operas Prokofievs symphonies Fokines choreography and Kandinskys 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
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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 Russias civilisation Each text has resonance throughout the arts in Rublevs icons Meyerholds theatre Mousorgskys operas Prokofievs symphonies Fokines choreography and Kandinskys 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
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This collection provides a tantalizing glimpse of what the Soviet public wants to read now Publishers WeeklyThis unique collection encompasses stories published in the Soviet Union during the past three years the era of glasnost by 1O writers of the Russian literary renaissanceAn illuminating oneofakind volume BooklistThe ten authors of this collection with their experience style philosophy and powers of observation belong to those who are bringing a second wind to these tumultuous times Vassily AksyonovThis is the best Russian prose of today better than yesterdays and possibly tomorrows Joseph BrodskyThis volume brings together the best writers many of whom are making their debut in English of the new Russian literary renaissance in the largest anthology available of works published during tire last three years in the Soviet UnionThe ten writers included here are stars of the current literary scene and their works have evoked both praise and controversy often provoking charges of excessive naturalism and pessimism These stories illuminate new worlds for both the Russian and Western reader as previously forbidden material is explored in works of real literary merit Included are biographical sketches and an extensive introduction examining the new trends in Russian literature under GorbachevWorks ByPetrushevskaya Iskander Kuraev Tolstaya Makanin Shmelyov Popov Genatulin Erofeyev amp Golovin
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This definitive anthology gathers stories essays memoirs excerpts from novels and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language It features writers of the tsarist Soviet and postSoviet periods both in Russia and in the great emigrations representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern The authors include figures who are not widely known today as well as writers of world renown Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations The editor of the anthology Maxim D Shrayer of Boston College is a leading authority on JewishRussian literature The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the authors background but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history status and identity Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal cultural and historical circumstances in which the writer worked and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of JewishRussian culture This handsome twovolume set is organized chronologically The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century and includes the editors extensive introduction to the JewishRussian literary canon The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present and each volume includes a corresponding survey of JewishRussian history by John D Klier of University College London as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources
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This definitive anthology gathers stories essays memoirs excerpts from novels and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language It features writers of the tsarist Soviet and postSoviet periods both in Russia and in the great emigrations representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern The authors include figures who are not widely known today as well as writers of world renown Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations The editor of the anthology Maxim D Shrayer of Boston College is a leading authority on JewishRussian literature The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the authors background but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history status and identity Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal cultural and historical circumstances in which the writer worked and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of JewishRussian culture This handsome twovolume set is organized chronologically The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century and includes the editors extensive introduction to the JewishRussian literary canon The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present and each volume includes a corresponding survey of JewishRussian history by John D Klier of University College London as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources
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Edited by Maxim D Shrayer a leading specialist in Russias Jewish culture this definitive anthology of major nineteenth and twentiethcentury fiction nonfiction and poetry by eighty JewishRussian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a peoples history A living record of the rich and vibrant legacy of Russias Jews this readerfriendly and comprehensive anthology features original English translations In its selection and presentation the anthology tilts in favor of human interest and readability It is organized both chronologically and topically eg Seething Times 1860s1880s Revolution and Emigration 1920s1930s Late Soviet Empire and Collapse 1960s1990s A comprehensive headnote introduces each section Individual selections have short essays containing information about the authors and the works that are relevant to the topic The editors opening essay introduces the topic and relevant contexts at the beginning of the volume the overview by the leading historian of Russian Jewry John D Klier appears the end of the volume Over 500000 Russianspeaking Jews presently live in America and about 1 million in Israel while only about 170000 Jews remain in Russia The great outflux of Jews from the former USSR and the postSoviet states has changed the cultural habitat of world Jewry A formidable force and a new Jewish Diaspora Russian Jews are transforming the texture of daily life in the US and Canada and Israel A living memory a space of survival and a record of success Voice of JewishRussian Literature ensures the preservation and accessibility of the rich legacy of Russianspeaking Jews
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Edited by Maxim D Shrayer a leading specialist in Russias Jewish culture this definitive anthology of major nineteenth and twentiethcentury fiction nonfiction and poetry by eighty JewishRussian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a peoples history A living record of the rich and vibrant legacy of Russias Jews this readerfriendly and comprehensive anthology features original English translations In its selection and presentation the anthology tilts in favor of human interest and readability It is organized both chronologically and topically eg Seething Times 1860s1880s Revolution and Emigration 1920s1930s Late Soviet Empire and Collapse 1960s1990s A comprehensive headnote introduces each section Individual selections have short essays containing information about the authors and the works that are relevant to the topic The editors opening essay introduces the topic and relevant contexts at the beginning of the volume the overview by the leading historian of Russian Jewry John D Klier appears the end of the volume Over 500000 Russianspeaking Jews presently live in America and about 1 million in Israel while only about 170000 Jews remain in Russia The great outflux of Jews from the former USSR and the postSoviet states has changed the cultural habitat of world Jewry A formidable force and a new Jewish Diaspora Russian Jews are transforming the texture of daily life in the US and Canada and Israel A living memory a space of survival and a record of success Voice of JewishRussian Literature ensures the preservation and accessibility of the rich legacy of Russianspeaking Jews
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The book is a credit to the press a boon to everyone interested in Russian culture and an important resource for teachers and students of Russian literature Library Journal a solid and conscientious piece of work informed by discerning taste and learning Times Literary SupplementSmiths collection of contemporary Russian poetry should be useful to anyone with a serious interest in work produced during recent years both by poets living in the USSR and by prominent Third Wave emigrés The introductory and biographical materials are excellentnbspPublishers WeeklyThe work of twentythree poets living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975 is highlighted in this duallanguage anthology The book features an extraordinary cohort of talented poets including Joseph Brodsky Evgenii Rein and Bella Akhmadulina Notes biographical sketches a detailed bibliography and an informative introduction make this an indispensable resource for teachers students and readers of modern Russian literature
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A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of fantasy and an escape from the bounds of realism Worlds Apart is an anthology that explores this fascinating and dominant theme of Russian literature from its origins to its contemporary incarnation
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Acquaints those unable to read Russian with writings that have helped to shape the social and political consciousness of modern Russia Most of these documents from the 18th and 19th centuries have never appeared in English
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An extensive introduction provides basic information about Russian epics their historical background their poetics the history of their collection their performance context and their main interpretations In addition their is a short introduction to each song explaining its plot allusions and interpretations A glossary of common terms and a selected bibliography of studies about the Russian epic in English and Russian are also included in the volume
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From the late nineteenth century onward a tremendous current of intellectual vitality has swept over Russia and the problems raised have been ultimately of religious significance Ultimate Questions offers as the editor says a searching look into that area of Russian culture whose significance both for the understanding of that culture itself and for the understanding of the religious searching of our time has not yet it seems to us been properly defined The scope of the volume reveals a broad range of concerns Solovyovs insights into the meaning of love and sexuality brilliant essays on freedom by Fedotov and on creativity by Berdyaev and a contribution by Khomyakov to the ecumenical encounter of East and West Rozanov probes the question of Christs relation to the world Fyodorov argues for a religious conception of brotherhood and Bulgakov offers a meditation on the joy of the Resurrection Most of the selections have never before appeared in English and were translated for this volume by Asheleigh E Moorhouse Ultimate Questions is an invitation to discover a living body of ideas that are still disputed and defended quietly in the USSR more openly in the West
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A compendium of folkloric literary and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet eraWe were born to make fairy tales come true As one of Stalinisms more memorable slogans this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of childrens literature How much moreand how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture especially in its utopian ambitionsbecomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic a compendium of folkloric literary and critical texts that demonstrate the degree to which ancient fairytale fantasies acquired political and historical meanings during the catastrophic twentieth century Introducing Western readers to the most representative texts of Russian folkloric and literary tales this book documents a rich exploration of this colorful genre through all periods of Soviet literary production 19201985 by authors with varied political and aesthetic allegiances Here are traditional Russian folkloric tales and transformations of these tales that adopting the didacticism of Soviet ideology proved significant for the official discourse of Socialist Realism Here too are narratives produced during the same era that use the fairytale paradigm as a deconstructive device aimed at the very underpinnings of the Soviet system The editors introductory essays acquaint readers with the fairytale paradigm and the permutations it underwent within the utopian dream of Soviet culture deftly placing eachfrom traditional folklore to fairy tales of Socialist Realism to reallife events recast as fairy tales for ironic effectin its literary historical and political context
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