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Review Of The Art And Science Of Making The New Soviet Man In Early 20th-Century Russia By Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov, Tim Harte
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
This Land Is Your Land: Andrei Bitov Travels Through The Caucasus, José Vergara
This Land Is Your Land: Andrei Bitov Travels Through The Caucasus, José Vergara
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
The present article examines Andrei Bitov’s Lessons of Armenia (Uroki Аrmenii) and A Georgian Album (Gruzinskii al’bom) as examples of subversive late-Soviet travel writing. While some scholars have noted imperialist tendencies in the two travelogues, I argue that Bitov effectively challenges the colonial perspective. Besides considering the Soviet state’s push for travel writing and tourism while Bitov was writing his texts, the article uses Mary Louise Pratt’s deconstruction of colonialist travel writing as a theoretical framework. Adapting and extending her work, I examine how Bitov consistently deploys and subverts three key devices: mastery of the seen/scene, …
Review Of 'Nabokov In Motion: Modernity And Movement' By Yuri Leving, Tim Harte
Review Of 'Nabokov In Motion: Modernity And Movement' By Yuri Leving, Tim Harte
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Flap Your Wings For Goodbye: Avian Imagery In Sasha Sokolov’S Between Dog And Wolf, José Vergara
Flap Your Wings For Goodbye: Avian Imagery In Sasha Sokolov’S Between Dog And Wolf, José Vergara
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
The present article explicates a selection of bird imagery in Sasha Sokolov’s second novel, Between Dog and Wolf (1980). It analyzes the author’s use of certain birds and their folkloric and mythological subtexts for symbolic purposes. In particular, he pairs his protagonists with key birds (hoopoe, lapwing, goose, magpie, albatross) to underscore aspects of their personalities, behaviors, relationships, and experiences. This ornithic imagery emphasizes how the characters cannot overcome their temptations and other base feelings to attain higher meaning and ultimately remain bound to the physical, natural world. (For a plot synopsis of Between Dog and Wolf, please consult …
The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov’S A School For Fools, José Vergara
The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov’S A School For Fools, José Vergara
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Distorted Images And Realities Of Andrei Bitov’S Literary Photographs., José Vergara
The Distorted Images And Realities Of Andrei Bitov’S Literary Photographs., José Vergara
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
Although Andrei Bitov’s best-known exploration of photography remains “Pushkin’s Photograph (1799–2099),” in which a young Pushkinist travels into the past to capture the poet’s image on film, this motif in fact appears throughout many of the author’s major works. This study addresses the two conflicting stances regarding photography that Bitov develops across a variety of genres. On the one hand, the manner in which a photo attempts to freeze or distort reality according to a particular worldview deeply disturbs his narrators, both fictional and semi-autobiographical. It becomes a tool for manipulation in texts such as “View of the Trojan Sky” …
Cognitive Play In Daniil Kharms’ ‘Blue Notebook №10.’, José Vergara
Cognitive Play In Daniil Kharms’ ‘Blue Notebook №10.’, José Vergara
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.