...Mary Childs Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus . By Gould Rebecca . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2016 . xi + 336 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Working in a turbulent area of the world, Rebecca Gould...

... University of Washington. 420 MLQ I December 1998 part by imperial Russian attempts to downplay the literatures of all the Middle Eastern republics; Susan Layton’s recent survey of Russian lit- erary treatments of the captive Caucasus is a depressing tale...

... of the Caucasus by the armies of General * Duchesiie, op. cit., p. 165. 5 P. 302. eP. 304. Note that Turgenev ma& this remark of Lerniontov’s owii eyes (ed. Glazunov [1915], X, 83). 96 Cltnrac ter of Peclcorin Yermolov, he has been on the frontier, constantly...

... and Teutonic speech, as well as Slavonic Europe as far south as the Black Sea and the Caucasus.4g They are absent from the three South European peninsulas (with the sole exception of Hahn’s Balkan variant), where amber was reduced to the role of a commercial commodity obtained in exchange...

..., this philosophy of imagination is self-deceptive, and he denies it in the well-known speech which begins, “0, who can hold a fire in his hand/ By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?” ( I.iii.294-95) . Bolingbroke’s denial of Gaunt’s consolation is only a prelude, how- ever, to a statement of his...

... the Caucasus Mountains, Graf, unlike the other passengers, refused to leave the vehicle when they approached a dangerous pass. He attributes his lack of fear to an indolent nature, but it may reflect a feeling of inner peace, unknown to some of his hyper- sensitive colleagues, who liked to speak...

... Nazran (a city in Ingushetia, in the Caucasus), to repaint her apartment. Just as Afghan-Kuzminki is and is not about sex, Communion is and is not about art and spiritual union. Faith is as central to Nita’s identity as her astonishing material wealth, to which her take on Orthodox Christianity...

... dream maiden in death. It illuminates the “icy summits” of Caucasus “like sunlight” (352-54). Finally, this false “sunlight” is con- sumed by a sickly “Yellow mist” that, when the Poet dies, “Filled the unbounded atmosphere, and drank / Wan moonlight even to fulness” (604-6). Concepts of virtue...

... In the stomach of the giant who carries A mountain of fire on his stricken back, And that one who feeds the bird devoted To the vengeful, thunder-­clasping god From his lung — it always returns to him —  Bound to the cold peak of the Caucasus. I beg of you, imagine still...