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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 March 2022
... national poet: Alexander Pushkin. Though much as been written about Pushkin’s “Byronic apprenticeship,” this article focuses on how Pushkin’s responses to the English poet led him to depart from—and even conflict with—a specifically political version of Byronism promoted by his contemporaries...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Fiction 4 ( 1968 ): 331 -41. Jefferson, D.W. “Observations on The Vicar of Wakefield.” The Cambridge Journal 3 ( 1949 -1950): 621 -28. Karamzin, N.M. Pis'ma russkogo puteshestvennika . Leningrad: Nauka, 1984 . Lotman, Iurii. Pushkin. Biografiia pisatel'ia. Stat'i i zametki 1960-1990...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
...LINA STEINER Written in 1828, Pushkin's narrative poem Poltava ushered in a new period in the poet's creative life, one in which Pushkin's task was to become a national bard (or, using the romantic terminology of the day, a national “genius”) whose poetry expressed Russia's innermost “spirit...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
... argues that Dolly’s potential vanishing act pays homage to the mercurial personalities that Nabokov encountered in Proust’s novel and the unconventional literary structures he admired in the works of Pushkin and Chekhov. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 Nabokov Proust Pushkin...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 January 2010
... had apparently read the French translation of Pellico's memoir in his youth, and his life-long fascination with Pushkin and Gogol, both of whom were attentive readers of Pellico, brought the works of this Italian writer into the orbit of his own literary interests. In this essay, I argue that, in all...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 194–212.
Published: 01 June 2019
... with the maturation of a tradition of verse making: certain nontrivial correlations between rhythm and rhyme that have been observed in Pushkin are not found in the work of Lomonosov, a poet who stands at the origin of Russian syllabo-accentual verse. The article’s conclusion addresses the relevance...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
...-improvisational ambivalence, an Aesopian text distracts a hurdle audience with a cover story or other screen while interacting with a target audience through subversive cues. To elude the Tsar’s censors, Aleksandr Pushkin as well as Vladimir Lenin deployed Aesopian language’s elusive, allusive art; its use...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 63–89.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... Memory and Literature. Intertextuality in Russian Modernism . Trans. Roy Sellars and Anthony Wall. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 . Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in the Olympic village and the metro—as his character is intertwined with a socialist internationalist literary canon. The metro is animated by an expansive literary imagination—from Khakassian folktales to Pushkin’s poetic epithets to romantic freedom, the narrator’s “innards: (my) thoughts, (my) experiences...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 487–490.
Published: 01 December 2013
... chapter begins with a collage image by the author that visually invokes the
texts to be discussed in the pages to come. The book consists of a series of “virtual encoun-
ters” highlighting different approaches to freedom: Boym reads Aeschylus and Euripides
alongside Kafka and Mandelshtam, Pushkin...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 491–493.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... The book consists of a series of “virtual encoun-
ters” highlighting different approaches to freedom: Boym reads Aeschylus and Euripides
alongside Kafka and Mandelshtam, Pushkin with and against Tocqueville, Dostoevsky with
Sacher-Masoch. Kierkegaard’s renunciation of romantic love opens onto Arendt’s...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 493–501.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... The book consists of a series of “virtual encoun-
ters” highlighting different approaches to freedom: Boym reads Aeschylus and Euripides
alongside Kafka and Mandelshtam, Pushkin with and against Tocqueville, Dostoevsky with
Sacher-Masoch. Kierkegaard’s renunciation of romantic love opens onto Arendt’s...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that concentrated on the
merits of Nabokov’s “literal” —unrhymed and richly annotated —translation of
Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse Eugene Onegin, this debate inexorably led to
I am most grateful to the late Dmitri Nabokov (1934–2012) for his permission to access the restricted
sections of his...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 283–299.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in August,
1857, he wrote, “I was/have been reading (chital) the Illiad. That’s it! What a
wonder! It is compelling me to rethink The Caucasus Tale [i.e., The Cossacks]”
(Opul’skaya 364). (The Russian translation that so inspired him, incidentally,
was Nikolay Gnedich’s, which Pushkin so admired...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., of accidental meetings with monarchs, mistaken for private
persons strolling in the park (Schönle 318). The locus classicus of such an encoun-
ter in the Russian literary tradition is of course the felicitous meeting, in Alexan-
der Pushkin’s Captain’s Daughter, between Masha Mironova and Catherine II...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of the field) usually
emerged in print as particularized articles pulled together loosely under such general titles
as “Pushkin and France” or “Russian Literature and the West,” rather than by unifying
argumentation.
Priscilla Meyer’s How the Russians Read the French aims to contribute some measure...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2011
...
emerged in print as particularized articles pulled together loosely under such general titles
as “Pushkin and France” or “Russian Literature and the West,” rather than by unifying
argumentation.
Priscilla Meyer’s How the Russians Read the French aims to contribute some measure of
interpretive...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of the field) usually
emerged in print as particularized articles pulled together loosely under such general titles
as “Pushkin and France” or “Russian Literature and the West,” rather than by unifying
argumentation.
Priscilla Meyer’s How the Russians Read the French aims to contribute some measure...
Journal Article
Homes without a Homeland: Finding Diasporic Intimacy in Contemporary Russian-Jewish-American Fiction
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 394–412.
Published: 01 December 2017
... boulevards, the sidewalks glistening in the night, Pushkin Square,
the lovers clutching flowers beneath the poet’s statue — the sentinels of love” (94).
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He responds by saying that he also misses “the boulevards, and Eskimo ice cream
sticks for twenty-five kopeks,” which...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 54–68.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and Pushkin in the Russian literary canon
(see Hagglund, Gibson, and Brint linger). Anticipating a different cultural liter-
acy on the part of the American reader and trying to construct a new authorial
persona, Nabokov had to choose to make explicit, recast, attenuate, or eliminate
many...
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