An Introduction To The Russian Novel

Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0192801449
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Catriona Kelly and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? and What shaped its creation?

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139471688
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature written by Caryl Emerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.

Author : Paul Cubberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796415
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian written by Paul Cubberley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible introduction to the linguistic structure of Russian, including its history, dialects and sociolinguistics, as well as the central issues of phonology, morphology, syntax and word formation/lexicology. It particularly emphasises the special linguistic features of Russian which are not shared with English and other non-Slavic languages. For intermediate/advanced students of Russian, this will help to reinforce their understanding of how all levels of Russian function. Students and scholars of linguistics will find it a useful starting point for comparative work involving the structure of Russian and the Slavic languages, or issues such as standardisation, multilingualism, and the fate of former colonial languages. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the basic theoretical concepts of the area covered, presenting the linguistic facts and relationships in an easily accessible form. It will also serve as a learning aid to Cyrillic, with all examples transliterated.

Author : Janko Lavrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317376455
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Russian Novel written by Janko Lavrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.

Author : Samuel David Cioran
Publisher : Ardis Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RussianAlive! written by Samuel David Cioran and published by Ardis Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 100 contact hours are required to cover all 35 lessons in RussianAlive!. However, the textbook has been organized in such a fashion that the essential grammar of Russian, including all cases (nouns, adjectives and pronouns, singular and plural), as well as the basic Russian tenses and aspects, are treated in the first 25 lessons. This arrangement will permit teachers with as few as 75 contact hours to cover the essential grammar of Russian. Lessons 26 to 35 can be introduced in any order, according to individual preferences. Among its features are: illustrated basic vocabulary, convenient grammar summaries, topical organization of grammar, flexible order of lesson materials, mini-essays on Russian culture, student activity sheets, quick drills, pic-drills, visualization exercises, branching to contextualized exercises and activities in Welcome to Divnograd!

Author : Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199580987
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian History: A Very Short Introduction written by Geoffrey Hosking and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.

Author : Michael Wachtel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004930
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry written by Michael Wachtel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Vanora Bennett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466892145
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Russian written by Vanora Bennett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, suspenseful novel of love, art, music, and family secrets set among the Russian émigré community of Paris in 1937 The White Russian by Vanora Bennett begins as Evie, a rebellious young American, leaves New York in search of art and adventure in Jazz Age Paris, home to her long-estranged bohemian grandmother. But just as Evie arrives, her grandmother becomes very ill. Before she dies, she compels Evie to carry out her final wish: find a man from her past known only as Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian émigré community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies, and illicit love affairs as White Russian faces Red Russian, and nothing is as it seems. When Evie meets Jean, a liberal Russian refugee connected to her grandmother’s circle, she thinks she has finally found the passion and excitement she’s yearned for all her life. But is she any nearer to discovering the identity of the mysterious Zhenya or to uncovering the heartbreak of her grandmother’s past?

Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578363
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction written by S. A. Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole—on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics, but situates political developments firmly in the context of massive economic, social, and cultural change. Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential, liberal interpretation of the revolution in favour of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization and enlightenment and ended in political tyranny. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476867
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction written by Nicholas Rzhevsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historic themes of Russia's civilisation. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theatre, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography and Kandinsky's paintings. This material is supported by introductions, helpful annotations and bibliographies of resources in all media. The reader is intended for use in courses in Russian literature, culture and civilisation, as well as comparative literature.