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Author : Susan Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521444439
Provides a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the 19th-century age of empire-building.
Author : Myroslav Shkandrij
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773522344
Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is well known, the tradition of resistance - which in the Ukrainian case can be traced as far back as the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian polities and cultures of the seventeenth century - is much less familiar."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Monika Greenleaf,Stephen Moeller-Sally
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0810115255
This collection of essays resituates poetic works by Derzhavin, Krylov, Batisushkov, Pushkin, Girboedov, Lermontov, Baratynsky and Pavlova, within the force fields of contradicoty cultural pressures, as are the once best-selling prose narratives of Narezhnyi, Karamzin, Viazemsky and others.
Author : José Manuel Prieto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199386
Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun
Author : Friedrich Otto
Publisher : Oxford : [s.n.]
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590739817
Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300097263
Focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet empires of Russia, Lieven reveals the nature and meaning of all empires throughout history. He examines factors that mold the shape of the empires, including geography and culture, and compares the Russian empires with other imperial states, from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United States. Illustrations.
Author : Daniel Brower
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135145019
The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian national interests, and by a civic reform agenda that brought to Turkestan the principles that informed Alexander II's reform policies. This civilizing mission sought to lay the foundations for a rejuvenated, 'modern' empire, unified by imperial citizenship, patriotism, and a shared secular culture. Evidence for Brower's thesis is drawn from major archives in Uzbekistan and Russia. Use of these records permitted him to develop the first interpretation, either in Russian or Western literature, of Russian colonialism in Turkestan that draws on the extensive archival evidence of policy-making, imperial objectives, and relations with subject peoples.
Author : Ewa M. Thompson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106015902981
While Western literature has long reflected the techniques of power that privileged the colonial masters and their point of view, Russian fictional and nonfictional texts have escaped such scrutiny because Russia is not generally considered a colonial power. In arguing that Russia's long history of territorial expansion is a form of colonization, this book uses postcolonial theory to examine Russian literature and the power structures reflected in it. Among the authors discussed are Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
Author : Harsha Ram
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299181944
The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.
Author : Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211131
From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anthony Cross
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781783740574
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
Author : Valeria Sobol
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501770101
"This book shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature (the themes of horror, medieval barbarity, darkness, and transgression) frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity"--
Author : Ronald Hingley
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UCSC:32106005739393
Most nineteenth-century Russian writers wrote for their own time and their own country. The assumed in their readers an intimate knowledge of imperial Russian life and familiarity with all sorts of detail with which modern students of their work cannot easily acquaint themselves. This background is supplied in systematic format in this book. It begins with a close look at the lives of writers, and the problems of the profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Empire being considered from the point of view of geography, ethnography, economics, and the impact of Tsars on writers and society. Next comes a discussion of the main social "estates" -- peasants, landowning gentry, clergy, and townspeople. Finally, the competing forces of cohesion and disruption in imperial society are analyzed in their literary context -- the activities of civil service, law courts, police, army, schools, universities, press, censorship, revolutionaries, and agitators. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Horace Peters Biddle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B81282
Author : Darius Staliūnas,Yoko Aoshima
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633866931
This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.
