..., Punctuation and Its Dramatic Value in Shakespear­ ean Drama (Newark: U o f Delaware P, 1995) 117. INTO A RUSSIAN WINTER : RUSSIAN EXTREMES IN THE DUCHESS OFMALFI In The Duchess of Malfi (1613), Jo h n Webster makes three direct references to Russia, one in each of the final three acts of his play. Curious...

... P ater 189-90. 20J o h n H enry Newman, Essays Critical and Historical (London: Longm ans G reen, 1901) i 29. 21 Sermons ii 373. 2- Essays i 290-91. 23Essays ii 442. 24Further Letters 408. CHEKHOV AND GERHARDI: THE RUSSIAN SOURCES OF ANTHONY POWELL S VENUSBERG {1932) The influence of Chekhov...

... the Czarist Russian state. The origination of the Petersburg mythos was w ith this poem; many writers, from Gogol to Akhmatova, followed the thematic threads of madness, destruction and the de­ m onic, along w ith contem plations of the uncertain boundaries o f reality, using the city as a backdrop. As Joseph...

... illennial Dawn at the time of the poem . Moreover, the two opposed ver­ sions of A ntichrist prophecy m ust come to grips with two recen t events which seen to herald the time of Antichrist: the Russian Revolution, and the British promise of a state for the Jews in Palestine (the Balfour D eclaration...

... Russian, not English, literary sources and all from another lim inal m om ent (by which you w ill under­ stand that I think this to be one too), the m om ent o f these quotes being that of modernism's exuberant incipience, as it pulls (or, like the angry man w ith the old father in the opening of Gertrude...

... of social Darwinism is played out in a violent fight for dominance when the protagonist, a rugged American individu­ alist named Rainsford, and the antagonist, a displaced Russian aristocrat named Zaroff, act out via their fateful gladiatorial contest the infamous doctrine of the survival of the fittest...

..., but I had never experienced the full brunt of its force until one day, while searching fo r something interesting to read from among the vast shelves of my fam ily's library, I happened upon a volum e of stories by the Russian Jewish writer, Isaac Babel, titled R ed C a v a lry S tories. W hile w riting...

..., Theater of Lockdown , 1 . 9 See https://www.sociallydistantperformance.com . 10 Araoz, “Crowdsourcing Theatre Practice.” 11 Gancher, Russian Troll Farm . See also Mezzocchi, “Reverse-Engineering Zoom with Isadora.” 12 See the “We See You, White American Theater...

...Jennifer Panek Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 18 English Language Notes See also W ebster s tragedy, The White Devil, written in the years preceding The Duchess ofMalfi, for another reference to the oppressive nature o f Russian gov­ ernm ent. In 4.2., Flamineo...

... of what the Russian Formalists term ed ostranenie making strange, or defamiliarisation. 10 In Heart of Darkness the arrows fired at the steamer (by, it transpires, Kurtz s army of native followers, acting on his orders) first appear to Marlow as sticks ; it is only after some moments that it dawns...

... A b b e y" to the garbage o f "Skunk Hour," these tw o poem s do m uch the sam e w o rk on th e ir readers. H o w su sta in ab le is th is genre a fte r the lo n g life it has led? Have its conventions, as the Russian fo rm a lists w o u ld have put it, w orn them selves out? Certainly by the tim e o...

...-1969), whose partnership tracked American radicalism from the Russian Revolution th ro u g h the HUAC era. Julia Allen reveals Rochester and Hutchins as im p o rta n t co n trib u to rs to radical th o u g h t and explores their rom ance as evidence o f the ever-present yet silenced status o f same-sex...

.... The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. C am bridge Studies in Romanticism 12. Cambridge: Cam bridge UP, 1999. Pp. xii + 222. pb. $21.95. 0-521-66458-6. Connolly, Julian W. Nabokov and his Fiction: New Perspectives. C am bridge Stud­ ies in Russian L iterature. Cam bridge: C am bridge UP, 1999. Pp...

... to fester, would render the Russian Revolution as useful for nonwhite peoples around the world as “formal” equality was for Black Americans under Jim Crow. McKay’s other major concern, however, was harder to articulate within the genre of a party address, and may be why it emerges so readily in his...

... reading is bound to be interrupted, postponed, and protracted by demands less predictable and more numerous than (say) the interm issions, interludes, and scene changes that may punctuate the briefer traffic and firm e r tim in g of the stage. Nabokov, in his Lectures on Russian Literature, suggests...

... the election during all the outrage over Russian tampering. He said it! ‘What, is America now a Banana Republic?’” 6 The Putin speech was both a disavowal and a taunting half admission of cyberhacking along with a commentary on the contemporary social and economic stratification of the United States...

... rig h t's rhum b lines, the phrase "a ug m entation o f the Indies" is a giveaw ay tha t the play­ w rig h t refers to W rig h t's map; the new Indies that appear in the m ap are Nova Zem bla in the Russian arctic, recently discovered by the Dutch exp lo rer W illem Barents, w h o also w ill feature...

...: Cam­ bridge UP, 2000. Pp. iii + 320. h c ./p b . $54.95 9.95. 0-521-58347-0/0521-58680-1. 106 English Language Notes Kelly, C atriona and Stephen Lovell. Russian Literature, Modernism and the Vi­ sual Arts. Cam bridge: C am bridge UP, 2000. Pp. xiv + 315. he. $64.95. 0521-66191-9. K errigan, William...

...." Global warm ing spells the end o f the world, not in an apocalypse but in an abject living-on in the absence of a meaningful lifeworld bounded by a distant horizon. We have realized that the "w o rld " is actually a gigantic object in which we exist like Russian dolls inside a larger Russian doll. W ith...

..., A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, 3 vols (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: A thlone P, 1994) 2:491-4. 51 Anthony Graham-White, Punctuation and Its Dramatic Value in Shakespear­ ean Drama (Newark: U o f Delaware P, 1995) 117. INTO A RUSSIAN WINTER : RUSSIAN...