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...Clark Davis In his meditation on Emerson's self-reliance, George Kateb argues that Emerson's entrance into antislavery politics, particularly his calls for collective mobilization, constitutes a “deviation from his theory of self-reliance, not its transformation.” Though Emerson often imagines...

...Caryl Emerson “Doing time,” then, means exiting the type of time in which we are active agents—and committing to the hard physical labor of creating literature. In book 3 (the third cycle of stories) there is an odd, powerful prose poem from 1963, “The Duck.” Too exhausted to fly south, a duck...

...Caryl Emerson [email protected] Andrea Gullotta , Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki, 1923–1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps ( Cambridge : Legenda , 2018 ), 359 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Russia is again becoming...

...Caryl Emerson [email protected] Elizabeth Wilson , Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2022 ), 352 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Maria Yudina (1899–1970...

...Caryl Emerson Andrey Platonov, Soul and Other Stories , trans. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (New York: New York Review of Books, 2007), 335 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s...

...Caryl Emerson Gavrilyuk Paul L. , Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 297 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Caryl Emerson Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 353 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity...

...Caryl Emerson Vitale Serena , Shklovsky: Witness to an Era , trans. Richards Jamie . ( Champaign, IL : Dalkey Archive , 2012 ), 120 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Caryl Emerson Alexandrov Vladimir , The Black Russian . ( New York : Grove , 2013 ), 306 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Caryl Emerson The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy , foreword Doris Lessing, trans. Cathy Porter (Surrey, U.K.: Alma Books, 2009), 609 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press...

...Caryl Emerson © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews WAR AND PEACE, LIFE AND FATE Caryl Emerson Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, trans. Robert Chandler (1960; New York: New York Review of Books, 2006), 871 pp...

...Caryl Emerson Common Knowledge 26:2 © 2020 by Duke University Press 353 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing up in Communist Russia, trans. Anna Summers (New York: Penguin, 2017), 176 pp. By the standards of the time, Petrushevskaya writes...

...Caryl Emerson Irma Kudrova, trans. Mary Ann Szporluk (Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2004), 232 pp. Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2004...

...Caryl Emerson Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia (London: Atlantic, 2004), 331 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic...

...Caryl Emerson The world is a monstrously heavy place, and words have proved lighter than air, but such an appetite for adversity and righteousness is invigorating. No matter what happened to Solzhenitsyn, he took control of it. He did not care whether or not he was liked. Among the personal...

...Caryl Emerson Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-06 Emerson 7/14/02 3:12 PM Page 482 LITERARY HUMILITY The Case of Russia under Its Old Regimes Caryl Emerson In his luminous reinaugural plea...

...Caryl Emerson Senelick Laurence and Ostrovsky Sergei , eds., The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 707 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Caryl Emerson Laurence Kelly, (London: Tauris, 2002), 314 pp. Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-12 Little Reviews 3/14/03 10:51 AM Page 341 LITTLE REVIEWS Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern...

...Caryl Emerson Kelly Aileen M. , The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 ), 582 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...Caryl Emerson; Jeffrey M. Perl Vitale Serena , Shklovsky: Witness to an Era , trans. Richards Jamie ( Champaign, IL : Dalkey Archive , 2012 ), 120 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...