Literary Biographies in the Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 un... Lees meer

Babel in Russian and Other Literatures and Topographies

Martin Meisel

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples, in Russian literatu... Lees meer

Chekhov's Letters

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the... Lees meer

Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence

Anastasia Kostetskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links betwee... Lees meer

Physical Pain and Justice

Gary Rosenshield

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• This study examines the treatment of physical pain in a selection of classical Greek plays and nineteenth-century Russian novels. The author highlight... Lees meer

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind

Nicole Svobodny

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory with intellectual biography to elu... Lees meer

Chekhov's Letters

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the... Lees meer

Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia

Yelena Zotova

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist pro... Lees meer

Dostoevsky as Suicidologist

Amy D Ronner

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim's etiology in Sui... Lees meer