Selected Stories

Alexander Fomich Veltman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Alexander Fomich Veltman (1800-1870), a prolific but largely forgotten nineteenth-century Russian writer, played a significant role in the development... Lees meer

Economies of Feeling

Jillian Porter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradit... Lees meer

Prologue

Nikolai Chernyshevsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-89) is most famous as the author of What is To Be Done? (1863), one of the most inspirational texts in the Russian revolut... Lees meer

About Chekhov

Ivan Bunin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Seven years after the death of Anton Chekhov, his sister, Maria, wrote to a friend, You asked for someone who could write a biography of my deceased b... Lees meer

The Letters and the Law

Anna Schur

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• The Letters and the Law explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. N... Lees meer

Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form

Greta Matzner-Gore

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and... Lees meer

Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Anna A Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Anna A. Berman's book brings to light the significance of sibling relationships in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Relationships in their work... Lees meer

No Day Without a Line

Yury Olesha

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• First published in 1965 and reprinted many times in the U.S.S.R. and Russia, No Day without a Line is a series of thematically assembled journal entri... Lees meer

Art in Doubt

Tatyana Gershkovich

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition-- that approaching a text skeptically is e... Lees meer

Tolstoy's Phoenix

George R Clay

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analyzing the structure of War and Peace, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and jargon-free ana... Lees meer

Dostoevsky's Idiot

Bruce French

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Prince Myshkin is one of Dostoevsky's most perplexing creations. In this study, Bruce A. French presents a provocative interpretation of the religious... Lees meer

Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche exp... Lees meer

Russian Subjects

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Although Russia's major Golden Age writers have had numerous book-length studies devoted to them by distinguished American slavists, no Western collec... Lees meer

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory

Jessica Merrill

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Russian Formalism is widely considered the foundation of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the movement in light of the current commitment... Lees meer

A Plot of Her Own

Sona Hoisington

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation. Th... Lees meer

Prologue

Nikolai Chernyshevsky

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-89) is most famous as the author of What is To Be Done? (1863), one of the most inspirational texts in the Russian revolut... Lees meer

By Authors Possessed

Adam Weiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• By Authors Possessed examines the development of the demonic in key Russian novels from the last two centuries. Defining the demonic novel as one that... Lees meer

The Politics of Reception

Greg Carleton

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Mikhail Zoshchenko was one of the most popular and contentious Russian writers in the period from 1920 to 1950. Scholars and critics have long enliste... Lees meer

Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism

Dana Dragunoiu

• Hardcover | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Alongside the puzzles contained in Nabokov's fiction, scholars have been unable to untangle the seemingly contradictory relationship between, on one h... Lees meer

Art in Doubt

Tatyana Gershkovich

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition-- that approaching a text skeptically is e... Lees meer

Everything Has Already Been Written

Gerald Janecek

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Innovative poets such as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figures of Russia in the 1980s and... Lees meer

Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Robert Louis Jackson has long been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the foremost Dostoevsky scholars in the world. Freedom and Respo... Lees meer

The Gift of Active Empathy

Alina Wyman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of... Lees meer

Dostoevsky's Secrets

Carol Apollonio

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spir... Lees meer