Download or read book The Captive and the Gift written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.
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Download or read book History of Nineteenth century Russian Literature Romantic period written by Dmitrij Tschižewskij and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Russian Literary Language from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title on spine: The Russian literary language.
Download or read book Slavic and East European Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Space in Russian Literature written by Katharina Hansen Löve and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the literary development of the narrative category of space in Russian literature from Romanticism until Modernism. It consists of two parts. The theoretical introduction renders a survey of some major 20-th century theories on literary development in the tradition of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism. A critical discussion is given of the cultural and stylistic typologies of the soviet scholar D. Lichacev and the semiotician I. Smirnov. Furthermore, the ideas on literary space, as they were developed by two important representatives of the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics, Ju.Lotman and V.Toporov, are described together with the method of literary analysis they offer. The contents of the second part of the book are analyses of the structure of space in the following narrative works: Mcyri by M.Ju. Lermontov, Nevskij prospekt by N.V. Gogol, Oblomov by I.A. Goncarov, V tolpe by F. Sologub and Kotlovan by A. Platonov. The analyses are accompanied by an interpretation of the story based on the spatial details in the text. It appears that both continuity and change characterize the development of literary space. This two-fold nature of the evolutionary proces comes to the fore through recurrence of spatial archetypes in all the periods under discussion and through ambivalence of meaning as a result of the semiotization of literary space in each literary work.
Download or read book Borderlands Orientalism or How the Savage Lost his Nobility written by Dominik Gutmeyr and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia's cultural memory, the Caucasus is a potent point of reference, to which many emotions, images, and stereotypes are attached. The book gives a new reading of the development of Russia's perception of its borderlands and presents a complex picture of the encounter between the Russians and the indigenous population of the Caucasus. The study outlines the history of a region standing in between Russian reveries and Russian imperialism. (Series: Studies on South East Europe, Vol. 19) [Subject: History, Russian Studies, Ethnology]
Download or read book Reciprocity Between the Various Tribes and Dialects of the Slavic Nation written by Ján Kollár and published by Slavica Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Borders of Europe written by Sissel Lægreid and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like national identities, European identity may be viewed as an imagined community, constituted by different levels of inclusion and exclusion along various border markers as those between included and excluded, between culturally dominating and dominated or between centre and periphery, natives and exiled. This book by researchers within the field of art and architecture, theatrical performance, literature and history, is an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the borders of Europe, especially where large scale cultural borders towards the East are concerned. The Borders of Europe offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of Europe and its regions, its origins and transformations while highlighting the aesthetics of hegemony and conceptions of centre and periphery in Europe, constructions of national, regional and artistic identity and the aesthetics and poetics of borders in literature and art.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Alexander Pushkin in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bibliography of Anton Chekhov in English: Studies, Translations, Reviews and Notes is offered in three appropriate parts. Part One, Studies, comprises sections for book-length bio-literary studies and bio-literary articles; introductions; comparative studies; Russian and foreign memoirs; popular studies; general and individual studies of Chekhov's plays and short stories; studies of his non-fiction, letters, notes, and diaries; and special categories: film, language and stylistics, documents and documentation, translation studies, dissertations, bibliography, and collections. Part Two, Translations, is divided into general collections, drama collections, individual dramas, story collections, individual stories; non-fiction, letters, notes, and diaries; and film. Part Three, Critical Reviews, provides a comprehensive selection of the most significant reviews in major English-language newspapers and journals through the year 1993. It is not possible to provide a comprehensive selection of an estimated 350,000 reviews of Chekhov plays, 1994-2003, but an attempt has been made to provide a representative sampling of reviews in major newspapers and current periodicals. Citations throughout this Bibliography are full and unabbreviated, the intent being to provide access to each work in every appropriate category without complicating the search process with confusing cross-listings. Entries for collections are accompanied by listings of contents in the order given in tables of contents or alphabetically. Entries for collections provide a base for subsequent listings of individual major works for addition of subsequent editions, reprints, and re-publications. Translations of plays are categorized by their most commonly known English titles and cited within categories by the English title given for a particular translation. English titles of stories have not been rationalized in this way because the large number of Chekhov's stories would require division of the section on individual stories into virtually hundreds of sub-sections. Instead, stories are listed in alphabetical order by the various English titles given for a particular translation.
Download or read book History of Nineteenth century Russian Literature written by Dmitrij Tschižewskij and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was of particular importance to Russian literature. This significant era in Russian letters is now the subject of an incisive critical history by one of the foremost scholars of Slavic literatures in the West.
Download or read book Tolstoj s Tales of the Caucasus and Literary Tradition written by Carol Carbone Eros and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Bibliography of Russian and East European Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nineteenth century Russian Literature in English written by and published by Ardis Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogs items published from the 1890s through 1986 covering both general topics and 69 writers. The bibliographies of individual writers are divided into sections on translations and on criticism. The translations include collected works, other books, and publications in anthologies and journals.
Download or read book Opera and Drama in Russia written by Richard Taruskin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
