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Examines the Russian literary circle through the life story of the poet Maximilian Voloshin. This book details the...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria...  Read More >>

Economies of Feeling offers an innovative analysis of the economic passions and sentiments that structure seminal...  Read More >>

""Dew on the Grass"": The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to...  Read More >>

The essays in this book explore the myriad ways in which forests figure in nineteenth century Russian culture. Associated...  Read More >>

This volume offers a detailed analysis of the literary careers of the three leading representatives of Russian village...  Read More >>

Edythe Haber relies on letters, archival materials, and memoirs by contemporaries to create Teffi's biography, as...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russia's Rome: Imperial Visions,...  Read More >>

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Boena Shallcross...  Read More >>

In fin-de-siecle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry...  Read More >>

Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations...  Read More >>

The eminent classicist and historian delves into Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to tell for the first time the previously...  Read More >>

In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, imprisonment, generational...  Read More >>

""This tour through Piranesian dreamworlds is also a tour through collective desire. With a subtle clarity, JL Williams...  Read More >>

50 lorua vuodelta 2025. Sarjan neljäs osa. Kirjaan valitut lorut ovat pääosin sanaleikkipohjaisia. Minna Rinne-Laturin...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema. It will be of...  Read More >>

Dibs: A Train of Thought takes readers on a breathless, witty, whimsical, and ultimately wise journey through the...  Read More >>

Today I Wear the Bear Head is a poetic tour de force, an extraordinary trip through a constellation of personas:...  Read More >>

A compelling collection of imaginative short stories blending myth, speculation, and unexpected twists. The Curse...  Read More >>

Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as...  Read More >>

When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a “realist in a higher sense”, it is because the facts are irrelevant...  Read More >>

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at...  Read More >>

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology...  Read More >>

The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky have been Russia's most popular science fiction writers since their first...  Read More >>