Remarkable Russian Women In Pictures Prose And Poetry

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609620448

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Remarkable Russian Women in Pictures, Prose and Poetry by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

Many Russian women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries tried to find authentic religious, marital, professional, and political experiences. Some very remarkable ones found these things in varying degrees, while others sought unsuccessfully but no less desperately to transcend the generations-old restrictions imposed by church, state, village, class, and gender. Like a Slavic Downton Abbey, this book tells the stories, not just of their outward lives, but of their hearts and minds, their voices and dreams, their amazing accomplishments against overwhelming odds, and their roles as feminists and avant-gardists in shaping modern Russia and, indeed, the twentieth century in the West. In their own words and images, and each in their own unique way, these remarkable Russian women construct a fascinating tapestry of a culture at the crossroads of modernity and on the brink of catastrophe.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609620684

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Resilient Russian Women in the 1920s & 1930s by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s and 1930s show how work, marriage, family, religion, and even patriotism helped sustain them during harsh times. The Russian Revolution launched an eco-nomic and social upheaval that released peasant women from the control of traditional extended families. It promised urban women equality and created opportunities for employment and higher education. Yet, the revolution did little to eliminate Russian patriarchal culture, which continued to undermine women's social, sexual, eco-nomic, and political conditions. Divorce and abortion became more widespread, but birth control remained limited, and sexual liberation meant greater freedom for men than for women. The transformations that women needed to gain true equality were postponed by the pov-erty of the new state and the political agendas of leaders like Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609621551

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Blessed Assurance: A Postmodern Midwestern Life by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

In this book, a historian of women's lives turns the lens on her own experience. Her story is ?Midwestern? for its work ethic, modesty, faith, and resilience; ?postmodern? for its sudden changes, strange juxtapositions, and retrospective ?deconstruction of the ideologies that shaped its progress. It describes a life in and out of academia and a search for acceptance, recognition, equality, and freedom. The author of three books on women's experiences in Russia and Europe, Dr. Marcelline Hutton traces her personal journey from traditional working-class La Porte, Indiana, through college, graduate school, marriage, motherhood, divorce, and independence in Iowa City, Southampton, Kansas City, El Paso, and ultimately Lithuania. She arrives at a place of ?blessed assurance, ? recognizing who she was, what she has done, and what she most valued. The book is a testimony of life found and treasured and shared. We are privileged to see her world through this honest, perceptive, and insightful recollection.

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : 0875011012

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Lives in Transit by Helena Goscilo Pdf

After the fall of the Soviet empire, feminine roles in Russia shifted radically, resulting in a rich new body of women's literature. Featuring twenty-five diverse writers from this turbulent era, "Lives in Transit" is a collection of stories and poems that strive to make sense of the female experience. Sexual awakening, romantic love, parenthood, politics, family structures, abortion, rape, and the struggle to integrate domestic and professional responsibilities are deftly handled here in stunningly vibrant verse and prose. "Lives in Transit" not only gives voice to a generation of talented Russian women authors, but also provides readers with a glimpse into a unique time and place. Within its pages are found a cobbler with an undying love, an immigrant family living in France, an elderly woman intrigued by a younger man, and other memorable characters, while several remarkable poems round out this collection.

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468301551

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Lives in Transit by Helena Goscilo Pdf

Selections of prose and poetry.

Author : Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299232030

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The Prose of Life by Benjamin M. Sutcliffe Pdf

Both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday life and the domestic sphere served as an ideological battleground, simultaneously threatening Stalinist control and challenging traditional Russian gender norms that had been shaken by the Second World War. The Prose of Life examines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict women’s experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present. Byt, a term connoting both the everyday and its many petty problems, is an enduring yet neglected theme in Russian literature: its very ordinariness causes many critics to ignore it. Benjamin Sutcliffe’s study is the first sustained examination of how and why everyday life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women’s prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A focus on the representation of everyday life in women’s prose reveals that a first generation of female writers (Natal’ia Baranskaia, Irina Grekova) both legitimated and limited their successors (Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tat’iana Tolstaia, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Svetlana Vasilenko) in their choice of literary topics. The Prose of Life traces the development, and intriguing ruptures, of recent Russian women’s prose, becoming a must-read for readers interested in Russian literature and gender studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Author : Christine D. Tomei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815317972

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Russian Women Writers by Christine D. Tomei Pdf

Author : James Diedrick
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781781889633

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Mathilde Blind: Selected Fin-de-Siècle Poetry and Prose by James Diedrick Pdf

Mathilde Blind’s contributions to the New Woman and Decadent movements in the 1880s and 1890s placed her at the centre of fin-de-siècle literary culture. She rose to prominence in the early 1870s, both as an expert on and proponent of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as one of the few women writers published in the Dark Blue (1871–73), an influential journal that featured the work of Britain’s leading Pre-Raphaelites and aesthetes. By the late 1880s, she had established close associations with key figures of England’s emergent Decadent communities, from Vernon Lee and Rosamund Marriott Watson to Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons. When her Dramas in Miniature appeared in 1891, she was fusing aestheticism and Decadence so distinctively in her poetry that Symons evoked Charles Baudelaire in calling the dramatic monologues in the volume ‘flowers of evil’. Her career thus highlights the connections between mid-Victorian aestheticism and late-century Decadence. It also serves as an important corrective to the male-focused narratives that long dominated accounts of these movements. In addition, and because Blind was born in Germany of Jewish parents and part of a community of exiled European radicals, her poetry and prose alike are characterized by a transnational, cosmopolitan outlook that ranges across national borders and consistently engages with Continental writers and ideas. This new edition for the first time brings together the three major volumes of poetry Blind published between 1889 and 1895 alongside a critical introduction and explanatory notes. Because she was also an active reviewer and essayist throughout her career, it includes a selection of her reviews as well as her essay ‘Shelley’s View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin’s’, which serves as an important supplement to her 1889 volume The Ascent of Man. The edition also features a selection of critical responses to Blind’s writing by leading late-Victorian poets and critics.

Author : Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 086091657X

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Women in Russia by Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck Pdf

Covers the history and politics of Russian women from the early years of the Soviet regime, through "glasnost" and into the post-Soviet era. It examines economic and professional inequalities, the role of women in the work-place and the political arena and the history of feminism in Russian.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Baltic Coast
ISBN : 9781434370310

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Falling in Love with the Baltics by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

Author : Robert Chandler,Irina Mashinski,Boris Dralyuk
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141972268

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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler,Irina Mashinski,Boris Dralyuk Pdf

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others. The volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov, while his anthologies of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales are both published in Penguin Classics. Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and co-founder of the StoSvet literary project. Her most recent collection is 2013's Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel]. Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews and translator of many books from Russian, including, most recently, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (2014).

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134260775

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Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UFL:35051117755027

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030220606

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American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433004005298

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Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf