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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 370–393.
Published: 01 December 2017
... abstraction. This article examines Gogol’s visual poetics within the context of Russian culture’s late, self-conscious appropriation of Renaissance perspective, drawing on contemporaneous developments in Russian art history and twentieth-century aesthetic theory. As seen in several key moments in Dead Souls...
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Homes without a Homeland: Finding Diasporic Intimacy in Contemporary Russian-Jewish-American Fiction
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 394–412.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Margarita Levantovskaya This article examines how contemporary Russian-Jewish-American literature imagines home and belonging for diasporic subjects. It focuses on novels by immigrant Jewish writers born in the USSR, specifically Anya Ulinich, Gary Shteyngart, and Ellen Litman. The novels analyzed...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 23–53.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and Religion. A Feeling for Faith . Ed. Susan Felch and Paul Contino. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001 . Barsht, Konstantin. “Observations on Dostoevsky's Creative Processes.” Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts . Ed. Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
... that the poem's idiosyncratic form indicates that Pushkin was not yet sure whether he was standing on the threshold of an Augustan or Neronian age. Pushkin's acquaintances among Moscow Slavophiles made him for the time being more attentive to the positive parallels between Russian and Roman history than...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Was Thursday by the Russian director Alexander Tairov. This fantastic novel by Chesterton is itself the site of multiple betrayals, both in the plot-level reversals of its characters and in its use of the oscillating narrative style characteristic of the fantastic literary mode. The resulting undecidability...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Ilya Kliger This essay attempts a reading of Ivan Turgenev’s First Love as a case study within a broader inquiry into the social imaginary of Russian realist fiction. One way to formulate the central question of the essay is to ask what happens when, on some deep structural level, an ostensibly...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 January 2002
... literatura, 1981 . 194 -206. ____. Voina i mir v dvukh tomakh . Samara: Dom pechati, 1996 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/2
SHARON LUBKEMANN ALLEN
Reflection/Refraction
of the Dying Light:
Narrative Vision in
Nineteenth-Century
Russian...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
... i a n s Re a d t h e Fr e n c h : Le r m o n t o v , Do s t o e v s k y , To l s t o y . By Priscilla Meyer.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 296 p.
Russian literary scholarship has for more than a century excavated and examined both
the overt and the possible Western...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Rimma Garn This essay discusses an intriguing literary journey, one in which an anonymous English eighteenth-century novel crossed the channel and, through its translation into French and Russian, became a crucial narrative model for one of the first published Russian fiction writers, Mikhail...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Alex Spektor This essay investigates philosophic trends of Russian modernism through an analysis of recently discovered author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s short story “In the Pupil,” which can be said to be a philosophic allegory. In order to understand its place in the history of Russian modernism...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2010
... condition of multi-historicity—that is, a simultaneity of multiple emplotment possibilities for the Russian state. In order to bring these possibilities to light, I read the novel with an eye on Dostoevsky's journalism from the early- to mid-sixties, a period characterized by an urgent recognition...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Anna A. Berman Abstract What is a family novel ? Russian literary scholars—who use the term frequently—claim that it is originally an English genre, yet in English scholarship the term has virtually disappeared. This article recovers the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 356–381.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Boris Maslov This article puts forward a genealogy of one of the principal temporalities associated with German (pre-)Romantic lyric, the time of a privileged moment (“ewiger/prägnanter Augenblick”). The same temporality is shown to dominate the lyric oeuvre of Fyodor Tiutchev, a Russian Romantic...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... trauma of religious experience. Tartt’s use of Dostoevsky in The Goldfinch underscores the Russian author’s value to contemporary trauma studies as an alternative to the prevailing canon. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oregon 2018 trauma selfhood external soul psychology theology...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 153–171.
Published: 01 June 2023
... (Albanian, 1978); Sonallah Ibrahim’s Ice (Arabic, 2011); and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Moscoviad (Ukrainian, 2000). These works each depict a different decade and come from different locations on the concentric map of Soviet influence: the Afro-Asian world, Eastern Europe, and the non-Russian USSR. Together...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., officially, to technical difficulties and script defects. This essay revolves around a puzzle: Hughes's much-cited account of these defects (from his 1956 autobiography) is almost a complete distortion. I provide the first in-depth discussion of the original Russian-language script to argue that Black...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... In particular, it analyzes Russian poetic response to Byron’s death, including works by Pushkin, Ivan Kozlov, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Kondraty Ryleev, and Dmitry Venevitnov. It also considers Pushkin’s “To the Sea” (1824), analyzing an extended polemic with Prince Pyotr Viazemsky about Byron’s political legacy...
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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...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to this work’s comedic elements, that Vâlâ imagined the collapse of both Russian and Ottoman imperial sovereignty in terms of sexual revolution. It argues that a study of this unjustifiably neglected erotic comedy not only deepens our knowledge of early republican Turkish literature and culture, but provides...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the most topical issues in Russia. This article examines Lenin’s essays on China in which he criticizes racist ideas popular in Russia and Europe. By comparing his essays with other Russian political commentaries on China, this article argues that Lenin views racism as a matter of political economy...
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