The Length of Days features a wild cast of charactersLithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainianand cameo appearances by Rosa Luxemburg, Amy Winehouse, and others. Embedded narratives attributed to one character, an alcoholic chemist-turned-massag...Lasīt vairāk
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, Miriam Shrager, Sibelan Forrester, Russell Scott Valentino, Sergei Nekliudov
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253074027)
Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly books on folklore, its sequel is finally available in an official English translation, completing the enterprise that oc...Lasīt vairāk
Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly books on folklore, its sequel is finally available in an official English translation, completing the enterprise that occupied mu...Lasīt vairāk
The Russian intelligentsia gave its name to the phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publications. This book focuses on the intelligentsias Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis as discovered in...Lasīt vairāk
The Length of Days features a wild cast of charactersLithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainianand cameo appearances by Rosa Luxemburg, Amy Winehouse, and others. Embedded narratives attributed to one character, an alcoholic chemist-turned-massag...Lasīt vairāk
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Sibelan Forrester, Marci Shore
Sērija : Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Feb-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674291201)
In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of magical realism. The novel is set in 2014, mostly in the composite Donbas city of Zan uncanny foretelling of what this let...Lasīt vairāk
Kneevi fearlessly addresses contemporary concerns (refugees, colonialism, womens issues) and personal ones (love, lifes choices) with poignancy and wit....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies - CEU Press
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Mar-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9789633863299)
In an era of increased mobility and globalization, a fast growing body of writing originates from authors who live in-between languages and cultures. In response to this challenge, transnational perspective offers a new approach to the growing body...Lasīt vairāk
Alexandra Cotofana, Reet Hiiemäe, James M. Nyce, Andreas Umland, Anita Stasulane, Alexandra Coofan, Larisa Jasarevic, Zlatina Bogdanova, Sibelan Forrester, Gabriel Girigan...
Sērija : Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2017, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, ISBN-13: 9783838209906)
Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that...Lasīt vairāk
Marina Cvetaevas biography and her relationship with visual arts, drama, folklore, music, translation, and the work of other poets, as well as her continuing influence on subsequent Russian poetry....Lasīt vairāk
Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Ag...Lasīt vairāk
Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Ag...Lasīt vairāk
Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova all were born in the early to mid-1970s and came of age during perestroika. They are old enough to have visceral memories of Soviet life but young enough to move adeptly with the new influenc...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781617035968)
Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction...Lasīt vairāk
The Cataract is a new translation of Serbian author Milica Micic-Dimovskas last major work. Its name refers to one characters eye problem, but also stands as a symbol for the political climate that clouds the vision of all levels of society. Set am...Lasīt vairāk
Filled with supernatural adventures, this unrivalled collection of Russian folk tales from the last 200 years contains such classic stories as Baba Yaga, Vasila the Beautiful, Father Frost and the Frog Princess. Original. A collection of tale...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Wayne State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814334669)
In this never-before-translated book, Propp, a well-known expert on and contributor to the study of folklore with a special emphasis on the Russian tradition, examines the history and theories behind Russian folktales in general, summarizing and expo...Lasīt vairāk
