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Tкань Памяти. Стихи Августа-Декабря 2022., Victor Fet

Open Access Books

Фет, В. Tкань памяти. Стихи августа-декабря 2022. Київ: Друкарський двiр Олега Федорова. 2022. 148 с.

«Ткань памяти» — продолжение предыдущей книги стихов, «Над бездной» (К.: Друкарський двiр Олега Федорова, 2022). Я несказанно рад, что стихи пишутся, и что я могу своим словом издалека поддержать друзей в борющейся Украине. В 2022 году история убыстрилась в сотни раз. Мы, может быть — последние, кто пишет на этом, стремительно исчезающем языке. В империи он умрёт от позора, его покроет вечная мерзлота. Нас, возможно, будут читать, как сегодня читают латынь — в будущих университетах свободных стран. Многие по …

Над Бездной. Стихи Этого Года., Victor Fet

Open Access Books

Фет, В.  Над бездной. Стихи этого года. Київ: Друкарський двiр Олега Федорова. 2022. 136 с.

В эту книгу вошли стихи, написанные за 200 дней войны, с февраля по сентябрь 2022 года. Их много, гораздо больше, чем я писал когда-либо ранее за полгода. Я полжизни (34 года) живу в Америке, где мой русский язык сегодня работает на энергии моего украинского летнего детства. Я рос в Сибири, но стал биологом на берегах Херсонской и Одесской областей, где мы с родителями стояли в палатке на берегу моего первого моря. Запахи и звуки этого вечного времени и пространства питают сегодня мою вселенную, …

Making The Old New: The Recontextualization And Traditionalization Of Tree Spirits In Video Games, Alexandria Ziegler

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Folklorists study the active rituals between humans and deities, as well as the inactive participation between them in narrative. However, they do not study the active participation that comes in the form of video games between them, though with shifts in society, this new way of engaging through digital forms is widespread and accessible. In my research, I studied Russian and Japanese tree spirits in a variety of video games to understand this new form of engagement with ancient deities. These video games are Okami, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Black Book, and The Witcher 3: The …

Writing Dystopia: Zamyatin’S Writing Philosophy, Genre, And The Protagonist Of We, Kelly A. Gallagher

College Honors Program

This thesis examines how Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) came to write one of the first literary dystopias. I argue that he designed dystopia in his novel We as a place that threatens the creation of what he considered “true literature,” in order to show why his conception of true literature is essential to the survival of the human spirit. The first chapter synthesizes Zamyatin’s critical essays and biographical details to reveal his writing philosophy, which I characterize as his belief that “creative revolution” sustains literature’s movement forward into the future. The second chapter explores why Zamyatin’s philosophy may have …

I Return My Ticket, Caroline Caldwell

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

This project serves to open up an accessible way to introduce people to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Questions around human nature and the problem of evil are enduring and I have found more peace in the works of Dostoevsky than anywhere else. I know, however, that Russian literature and long novels in general are incredibly intimidating, so I chose to follow in the footsteps of Dave Malloy and his work Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 to create an approachable and engaging avenue to consume Dostoevsky in a more palatable fashion. Knowledge of other cultures …

Starry-Eyed: Elena Shvarts As "The Girl With One Hundred Forty-Eight Birthmarks, Laura Little

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of 'Nabokov In Motion: Modernity And Movement' By Yuri Leving, Tim Harte

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

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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, …

Once Upon A Time/There Was A Story That Began: Novelty, Endings, And Chronotope In John Barth’S The Tidewater Tales, Zachary K. Gibson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the use of frame tales, genre blending, multi-voiced narration, and circular structure in John Barth’s 1987 novel, The Tidewater Tales. It tracks the isomorphy of Barth’s general aesthetic project, set forth in his essays, “The Literature of Exhaustion,” “The Literature of Replenishment,” and “Very Like an Elephant: Reality Versus Realism,” onto the theoretical aesthetics of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. Both Barth and Bakhtin praise the novel its omnivorous capability to accommodate, and juxtaposes conflicting genres against one another; they each see the novelist as an “arranger” or “orchestrator,” who reassembles pre-existing forms to make them …

God Poezii 2022, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

Fet, V. (ed.). God poezii 2022 [Year of Poetry 2022]. Kyiv: Drukarskii dvir Oleha Fedorova. 2022. 656 p.

Year of Poetry 2022 brought together around 90 authors of different generations from various countries who continue to write in Russian beyond the borders of the crumbling empire. We are proud that this book is being published in Kyiv. Whatever we write about, the hearts and poems of those who cannot remain silent are with fighting Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!

Год поэзии 2022. (Сост. В. Фет). Київ: Друкарський двiр Олега Федорова. 2022. 656 c …