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Book The Female Adolescent in Exile in Works by Irina Odoevtseva  Nina Berberova  Irmgard Keun  and Ilse Tielsch

Download or read book The Female Adolescent in Exile in Works by Irina Odoevtseva Nina Berberova Irmgard Keun and Ilse Tielsch written by Xenia Srebrianski Harwell and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The condition of exile, a wide-ranging phenomenon of the twentieth century, has been of considerable interest to writers and scholars alike. Focusing on the novels Izol'da by Irina Odoevtseva, Mys bur' by Nina Berberova, Kind aller Länder by Irmgard Keun, and Heimatsuchen by Ilse Tielsch, this book is the first in its field to examine the literary representation of the adolescent girl in exile. It explores the interplay of themes and images relating to adolescence, femaleness, and exile through a close reading of each individual text as well as from a comparative perspective. This book highlights the work of four women writers who have only recently begun to gain scholarly recognition. Additionally, it situates both the works and their authors in their historical context and in the context of Slavic or Germanic scholarship.

Book Creativity in Exile

Download or read book Creativity in Exile written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, discussion of ‘creativity in exile’ has focussed almost exclusively on a few European male writers, from Dante to Joseph Brodsky, who sought refuge abroad from political oppression. This volume, with accompanying 100-minute DVD, ranges much more widely, to examine the extraordinary creative endeavours in a range of media of men and women in almost every part of the world who, for a host of different reasons, have experienced displacement from their homelands. It brings together papers by academics, many of whom have experienced exile themselves, on topics as diverse as: the visual arts in Colombia, fiction by displaced indigenous peoples, convicts and slaves as exiles, writings about the partition of Bengal, the culture of Palestinian Americans, philosophers on exile, and the significance of cooking to refugee communities, which are interspersed with poems by contemporary writers in exile. The use of the DVD format has permitted the inclusion of: studio interviews with notable exiled writers from Nigeria, Cyprus and Bulgaria, extracts from two films relating to exile, a live reading of his work by an Iraqi poet, an audio and sculptural installation by a First Nations Canadian artist, and a performance by musicians in exile from Burundi.

Book Masquerade and Femininity

Download or read book Masquerade and Femininity written by Urszula Chowaniec and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience, masks, body, gender relations, nature, culture and authorship. Masquerade and Femininity brings together East European literary studies and gender studies, offering a comparative perspective on literature, literary theory and cultural phenomena in Poland and Russia, and featuring a range of both eastern European and western scholars. In its pages, the reader is invited to move beyond Russian literature and language into a dialogic approach between Slavic literatures. This book will also contribute to filling the comparative gap which is still relatively unexplored not only with regard to the application of western scholarship to East European studies, but also with regard to the dialogue between Russian and Polish scholarship.

Book American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists  Ohrid  September 2008  Literature

Download or read book American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists Ohrid September 2008 Literature written by Christina Yurkiw Bethin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women   Gender in Central and Eastern Europe  Russia  and Eurasia  Russia  the non Russian peoples of the Russian Federation  and the successor states of the Soviet Union

Download or read book Women Gender in Central and Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia Russia the non Russian peoples of the Russian Federation and the successor states of the Soviet Union written by Mary Fleming Zirin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Review Index

Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Book Slavic Review

Download or read book Slavic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).

Book Subject Guide to Books in Print

Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 3310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billancourt Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Berberova
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780811218337
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Billancourt Tales written by Nina Berberova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Paris between 1928 and 1940 for an emigrant newspaper, Billancourt Tales is about the industrialized suburb of Paris where thousands of exiled Russians, including Berberova, were finding factory work and establishing homes.

Book The Ladies from St  Petersburg

Download or read book The Ladies from St Petersburg written by Nina Berberova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of novellas on the Russian Revolution. One is set at the dawn of the revolution, a second describes the flight from its turmoil and a third, The Big City, is set in New York and deals with the experience of exile and the loneliness of immigrant life. Zoya Andreyevna -- The big city.

Book The Accompanist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Berberova
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780811215343
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Accompanist written by Nina Berberova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doomed to living in her mentor's shadow, Sonechka, a talented but mousy young pianist employed by a beautiful soprano and her devoted, bourgeois husband, secretly schemes to expose infidelities.

Book The Italics are Mine

Download or read book The Italics are Mine written by Nina Berberova and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Better Correspondence

Download or read book Better Correspondence written by Wallace Cleveland Miller and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia Abroad

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  • Author : Marc Raeff
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1990-04-19
  • ISBN : 0195363493
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Russia Abroad written by Marc Raeff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first of these migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million Russians were forced into exile. With this book, Marc Raeff, one of the world's leading historians of Russia, offers the first comprehensive cultural history of the "Great Russian Emigration." He examines the social and institutional structure of the emigration and describes its rich cultural and intellectual life. He points out that what distinguishes this emigration from other such episodes in European history is the extent to which the emigres succeeded in reconstituting and preserving their cultural creativity in the West. The flourishing Russian communities of Paris, Berlin, Prague and Kharbin not only enriched Russian arts and letters, but also significantly influenced the culture of their Western hosts, and Raeff concludes with an assessment of their impact on the development of modern Western and Soviet culture.

Book The Tattered Cloak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Berberova
  • Publisher : Random House of Canada Limited
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780099149514
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Tattered Cloak written by Nina Berberova and published by Random House of Canada Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: