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Review: Vladimir Kholkin and Anatolii Maslov.«Действующее лицо. Предположения об одном портрете Пушкина»
Review: Vladimir Kholkin and Anatolii Maslov.«Действующее лицо. Предположения об одном портрете Пушкина»
Vladimir Kholkin and Anatolii Maslov. Deistvuiushchee litso. Predpolozheniia ob odnom portrete Pushkina. St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2009. 56 pp. ISBN: 978-5-91419-237-9. Paper.Как объясняется двумя авторами, художником Анатолием Масловым и критиком Владимиром Холкиным, Действующее лицо является первым выпуском «своебразной серии портретов русских[…]
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«The Queen of Spades»: A Seriously Intended Joke
«The Queen of Spades»: A Seriously Intended Joke
The Queen of Spades: A Seriously Intended Joke J. Douglas Clayton It is a commonplace to begin any discussion of The Queen of Spades by remarking on the richness of the secondary literature. Analyses of the tale can for the most part[…]
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The Poet and His Readers: Three Lyrics and an Unfinished Story of Alexander Pushkin
The Poet and His Readers: Three Lyrics and an Unfinished Story of Alexander Pushkin
The Poet and His Readers: Three Lyrics and an Unfinished Story of Alexander Pushkin Kathleen Manukyan Now and then, in the course of events, when the flow of time turns into a muddy torrent and history floods our cellars, earnest people are apt[…]
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Between Thought and Feeling: Odoevsky, Pushkin, and Dialectical Doubt in 1833
Between Thought and Feeling: Odoevsky, Pushkin, and Dialectical Doubt in 1833
Between Thought and Feeling: Odoevsky, Pushkin, and Dialectical Doubt in 1833 Jonathan Brooks Platt In the commentary to the Literary Monuments edition of Vladimir Odoevsky's Motley Tales, Marietta Tur´ian remarks upon a peculiar moment of intertextual resonance in the final tale of the[…]
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Introduction to the Harvard Symposium on "Pushkin & Blackness"
Introduction to the Harvard Symposium on "Pushkin & Blackness"
Alexander Pushkin: A Historic Symposium at Harvard Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia’s Greatest Poet, Father of Modern Russian Literature and the Black Russians of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, April 2008) Lolita Paiewonsky April 2008 brought together scholars, researchers, teachers, artists, departmental[…]
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Arthur Vincent Lourié’s Opera on Pushkin’s Black Great-Grandfather
Arthur Vincent Lourié’s Opera on Pushkin’s Black Great-Grandfather
Arthur Vincent Lourié’s Opera on Pushkin’s Black Great-Grandfather Caryl Emerson and Klára Móricz The four texts below were delivered orally and in tandem at the interdisciplinary conference “Alexander Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard. Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia’s Greatest Poet, Father[…]
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Pushkin as a Poet of Blackness
Pushkin as a Poet of Blackness
Pushkin as a Poet of BlacknessCatharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy The title of this paper, “Pushkin as a Poet of Blackness,” shades into another title, “Pushkin as a Black Poet.” I am taking as my starting point a question one of my colleagues,[…]
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Pushkin's Aestheticized Defense of His African Heritage in His Poem "My Genealogy"
Pushkin's Aestheticized Defense of His African Heritage in His Poem "My Genealogy"
Pushkin’s Aestheticized Defense of His African Heritage in His Poem “My Genealogy”Sonia I. Ketchian I treasure the past in my home,I secretly conjure up the past.– Anna Akhmatova, “They came and said…”[1] This study concentrates on Pushkin’s masterpiece of rebuttal “My Genealogy” (“Moia[…]
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«Variegated Tales» by Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky
«Variegated Tales» by Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky
Excerpts from Variegated Tales by Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky Translated by Olesya Surkova Translator’s Preface In general, the American reader’s knowledge of Russian literary classics is limited primarily by the availability of English language translations. Extant translations have also largely defined the foreign audience’s[…]
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Review: Robert Chandler. «Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin»
Review: Robert Chandler. «Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin»
Robert Chandler. Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin. London: Hesperus Press, 2009. 152 pp. ISBN 978-1-84391-912-4. Paper. As we all know and often lament, those who cannot read Russian ordinarily esteem Alexander Pushkin’s works less than they merit, largely because so much of[…]
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