Dreiser S Russian Diary

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812292381

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Dreiser's Russian Diary by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make an extended tour of the country. This previously unpublished diary is a firsthand record of life in the USSR during the 1920s as seen by a leading American cultural figure. It is a valuable primary source, surely among the last from this period of modern history.

Author : Ludmila Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134238668

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Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40 by Ludmila Stern Pdf

Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about. Focusing in particular on the work of various official and semi-official bodies, including Comintern, the International Association of Revolutionary Writers, the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and the Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers' Union, this book shows how cultural propaganda was always a high priority for the Soviet Union, and how successful this cultural propaganda was in seducing so many Western thinkers.

Author : Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204409

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Leaves from a Russian Diary—and Thirty Years After [Enlarged Edition] by Pitirim A. Sorokin Pdf

The reminiscences of a fiercely anti-Communist Petrograd professor, Pitirim A. Sorokin—from the February Revolution right through to his departure from Russia in September 1922. This is the enlarged edition published almost 30 years after the first 1924 publication and contains the additional section, “Thirty Years After,” in which the author describes how the Revolution that has since come of age has turned out to be simultaneously “a gigantic success and a colossal failure.” A fascinating read.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252091025

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Letters to Women by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Theodore Dreiser led a long and controversial life, almost always pursuing some serious question, and not rarely pursuing women. This collection, the second volume of Dreiser correspondence to be published by the University of Illinois Press, gathers previously unpublished letters Dreiser wrote to women between 1893 and 1945, many of them showing personal feelings Dreiser revealed nowhere else. Here he both preens and mocks himself, natters and scolds, relates his jaunts with Mencken and his skirmishes with editors and publishers. He admits his worries, bemoans his longings, and self-consciously embarks on love letters that are unafraid to smolder and flame. To one reader he sends “Kisses, Kisses, Kisses, for your sweety mouth” and urges his needy requests: “Write me a love-letter Honey girl.” Alongside such amorous play, he often expressed his deepest feelings on philosophical, religious, and social issues that characterize his public writing. Chronologically arranged and meticulously edited by Thomas P. Riggio, these letters reveal how wide and deep Dreiser’s needs were. Dreiser often discussed his writing in his letters to women friends, telling them what he wanted to do, where he thought he succeeded and failed, and seeking approval or criticism. By turns seductive, candid, coy, and informative, these letters provide an intimate view of a master writer who knew exactly what he was after.

Author : Shawn St. Jean
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638872

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Pagan Dreiser by Shawn St. Jean Pdf

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Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : New York, Liveright
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Russia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025630919

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Dreiser Looks at Russia by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

This work is based on the author's experiences visiting the Soviet Union.

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Berg
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781847883469

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Hollywood's American Tragedies by Mandy Merck Pdf

Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood has repeatedly returned. Hollywood's obsession with this tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. Some of cinema's greatest directors - Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg and George Stevens - have attempted to bring this classic story to the screen. Subsequently, both Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen have returned to the story and to these earlier adaptations. Hollywood's American Tragedies is the first detailed study of this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. What it reveals is a history of Hollywood - from its politics to its cinematography - and, much deeper, of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350115033

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Love and Russian Literature by Ira B. Nadel Pdf

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Author : Jennifer M. Hudson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498559270

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Iron Curtain Twitchers by Jennifer M. Hudson Pdf

This study examines cases of rhetorical antagonisms and collaborations between the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. The author analyzes relations from cultural and political angles and investigates mutual perspectives at both the government and grassroots levels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822031522915

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Dreiser Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Englishwoman An Englishwoman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436641853

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From a Russian Diary, 1917-1920 (1921) by Englishwoman An Englishwoman Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Keith Newlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313093579

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A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia by Keith Newlin Pdf

For a century, Theodore Dreiser has represented for many readers a rebellious modernism whose novels both critiqued the American dream and embodied a bleakly deterministic perception of life. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was reluctantly published and then ignored by its publisher, who thought the book immoral. Another publisher withdrew his fifth novel, The Genius (1915), rather than face prosecution on obscenity charges. Dreiser did not enjoy widespread popularity and critical acclaim until his masterpiece, An American Tragedy, appeared in 1925. This reference is an authoritative guide to his life and works. Included are several hundred entries on each of Dreiser's books and short stories, as well as magazine and newspaper pieces he collected during his life. Noteworthy uncollected and posthumously collected works are given separate entries, as are major characters in the novels, family members, friends, and other persons important to understanding his writings. There are also entries on Dreiser's publishers, his major influences, the places and events important to his life, and the literary and social contexts of his works. Expert contributors wrote each of the entries, many of which cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works by and about Dreiser.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810125216

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A Writer's Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.

Author : An Englishwoman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1016810679

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From a Russian Diary, 1917-1920 by An Englishwoman Pdf

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Author : Kornei Chukovsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300137972

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Diary, 1901-1969 by Kornei Chukovsky Pdf

A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of a brilliant observer who documents fifty years of Soviet literary activity and the personal predicament of the writer under a totalitarian regime. From descriptions of friendship with such major literary figures as Anna Akhmatova and Isaac Babel to accounts of the struggle with obtuse and hostile censorship, from the heartbreaking story of the death of the daughter who had inspired so many stories to candid political statements, the extraordinary diary of Kornei Chukovsky is a unique account of the twentieth-century Russian experience.