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Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in Russian Literature
Maxim Gorky’S Illusionary Reformation Of Human Nature And The Rise Of The Soviet Citizen: Socialist Realism As A Constructive Force In Mother, Alysia Gayle Meyer
Maxim Gorky’S Illusionary Reformation Of Human Nature And The Rise Of The Soviet Citizen: Socialist Realism As A Constructive Force In Mother, Alysia Gayle Meyer
Honors Projects
This paper examines the origins and evolution of the Socialist Realism movement headed by Maxim Gorky, as a defining ideological and artistic framework of the Stalin era. Emerging in response to the experimental avant-garde movements of Revolutionary Russia, Socialist Realism sought to construct the ideal Soviet Reality, reimaging society and its citizens through the lens of collectivism, labor, and ideological purity. Central to this exploration is Gorky’s first major Socialist Realist novel, Mother, which serves as a blueprint for depicting the ideal Soviet citizen. By analyzing the motivations behind this movement and its portrayal of utopian ideals, this study reveals …
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again, Ian R. Singleton
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again, Ian R. Singleton
Living in Languages
Russophone poet Galina Itskovich wrote the statement serving as the title of this text about the identity of her native Odesa, Ukraine in 2023, more than a year and a half after the full-scale invasion by Russia. I propose an examination of the relationship of contemporary Odesan writers to the Russian language. Sources for this examination include the work of writers in or from Odesa such as Galina Itskovich, Maria Galina, Oleg Fesenko, and Igor Bozhko. To discuss what this situation means for translation, such as is demanded by Ukraine’s 2019 law on the status of the Ukrainian language, I …
Glitching Mayakovsky: Teaching The Accidental Poetry Of Machine Learning, Carlotta Chenoweth
Glitching Mayakovsky: Teaching The Accidental Poetry Of Machine Learning, Carlotta Chenoweth
Russian Language Journal
In this article, I seek to build on recent scholarship investigating the aesthetic status of AI-generated objects and the creative potential of machine learning by asking how AI glitches can be productive, both poetically and pedagogically. The report outlines an activity I designed for an undergraduate Soviet literature survey course. For this activity, I ask students to work in small groups and generate their own pseudo-Mayakovsky poem using ChatGPT. After sharing the poems, we discuss questions including the following: in what way can Mayakovsky be considered the “author” of these poems? Does this constitute a new literary genre or form? …
Samozvanets (The Pretender), Matthew Garrell, Alikzandr Malakov
Samozvanets (The Pretender), Matthew Garrell, Alikzandr Malakov
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
he Russian word Samozvanets most directly translates to Imposter in English. However, for this thesis, I have selected the alternative interpretation of Pretender. Imposter implies the taking or assuming of another’s position. Pretender, more personally, carries the meaning of presenting self as something one is not. It is through the lens of the Pretender that I examine the idea of what it means to be a member of a particular ethnicity, and to engage with one’s cultural heritage. I do this through a collection of fictional stories, investigating various lives within the Russian diaspora following the dissolution of the Soviet …
Tuff Breeches, Arkadiy Ryabin
Tuff Breeches, Arkadiy Ryabin
Theses and Dissertations
In consideration of language and it’s relationship to information and knowledge, the author explores personal set of events in relationship to that of the public, via forms of orality. 19th century American literature is posited as a hangover influencing contemporary events.
The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
The Men and women in White Robes (Belye odezhdv), Vladimir Dudinstev's fictional account of the banning of genetics in the Soviet Union, are acutely aware that in the 20th century, the study of the fruit fly is the study of man. The key to unraveling the mystery of human nature lies in the easily observed chromosomes of the forbidden fly (drosophila melanogaster). Under Stalin, the banned geneticists were branded “Morganists” after their hero Thomas Hunt Morgan, the Columbia University researcher who pioneered the technique of mapping locations on drosophila chromosomes to specific traits in the flies. To …
An Unusual State Of Matter (Russian Translation), Victor Fet
An Unusual State Of Matter (Russian Translation), Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
A selection of science poems by Roald Hoffmann (Cornell University). Translated into Russian by Victor Fet. Dedicated to the 80th birthday of this famous chemist.
Readers In Pursuit Of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks In Lolita, Innesa Ranchpar
Readers In Pursuit Of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks In Lolita, Innesa Ranchpar
English (MA) Theses
This thesis examines the competing frameworks in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita—the fictional Foreword written by John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and the manuscript written by Humbert Humbert—in order to understand to what extent the construction manipulates the rhetorical appeal. While previous scholarship isolates the two narrators or focuses on their unreliability, my examination concentrates on the interplay of the frameworks and how their conflicting objectives can be problematic for readers. By drawing upon various theories by Michel Foucault from Power/Knowledge and Louis Althusser’s “On Ideology,” I look into how John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and Humbert Humbert use authoritative voices to directly …
Serebrianaia Rybka Nabokova [Nabokov’S Silverfish], Victor Fet
Serebrianaia Rybka Nabokova [Nabokov’S Silverfish], Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Histology. - Atlantis. - The Source. - A Breath. - A Form Of Life. - Behind The Stage. - At The Stations, Victor Fet
Histology. - Atlantis. - The Source. - A Breath. - A Form Of Life. - Behind The Stage. - At The Stations, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
[Introduction To] Red Star Tales: A Century Of Russian And Soviet Science Of Fiction, Yvonne H. Howell
[Introduction To] Red Star Tales: A Century Of Russian And Soviet Science Of Fiction, Yvonne H. Howell
Bookshelf
For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit.
A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and the head lives to tell the tale… An explorer experiences life on the moon, in a story written six decades before the first moon landing... Electrical appliances respond to human anxieties and threaten to crash the electrical grid… Archaeologists discover strange powers emanating from a Central Asian excavation site… A teleporting …
My Poems Will Find Their Home…, Victor Fet
My Poems Will Find Their Home…, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Our Theater. – A Calendar. – One Of Them. – Leaving Behind. – A Night Song. – On This Side, Victor Fet
Our Theater. – A Calendar. – One Of Them. – Leaving Behind. – A Night Song. – On This Side, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Berg’S Diary. – The Plant Anatomy, Victor Fet
Berg’S Diary. – The Plant Anatomy, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Life Within A Man, Victor Fet
Life Within A Man, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Freedom. – What If? – Still Unknown. – The Actor, Victor Fet
Freedom. – What If? – Still Unknown. – The Actor, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
No abstract provided.