...Linda Simon An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture . By Pauly Thomas H. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . 1983 . Pp. viii , 282 . $29.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 335 True, his immense popularity waned even before he...

... embraced him for more than a decade. But Kazan persevered, and again his reputation grew as he found his place among the country s most praised directors. Surely Kazan is gifted, and just as surely he is a complex, often troubled, sometimes obsessed man and artist. This book, however, does not aim...

... An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. By Thomas H. Pauly. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1983. Pp. viii, 282. $29.95. Elia Kazan actor, director, novelist gained fame as a man with a social conscience. He directed Thornton Wilder s The Skin of Our Teeth, Arthur Miller s All My Sons...

... family in Kazan on the Upper Volga, and a week s trip down the Volga sharing a stateroom with a young Ukrainian journalist and his wife, who later made me one of the three principal characters in a some­ what fictionalized book about the trip. On three occasions in the past six years I have spent a total...

... on the crowded board; Behind them sit the guardsmen, a wanton, reckless horde. The wine flows down since evening upon the palace floor; To please the tsar since nightfall, the shameless singers roar; They sing the joys of battle, the deeds of former times, The capture of Kazan and great Astrakhan s strong lines...

... but the unattainable a comfortable living. Aleksyey learned to read in a little school kept by a priest, but his dis­ like for the clergy was already taking root. He acquired an appreciation of literature from a drunken cook on a Volga steamboat at Kazan. He wanted to study, but his real uni­ versity was life itself...

... Press, 2001); Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Pub- lic Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003); David Eng and David Kazan- jian, eds., Loss: The Politics of Mourning (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Judith Halberstam...

..., Suzdal, Viatka, Kazan, Tula, and others. Typically these in­ vestors did not themselves go to the trading cities, but hired agents or assistants (prikazchiki or izvozchiki) to conduct their business for them, or they commissioned local merchants to buy in their 122 The South Atlantic Quarterly names...

... of the ruler: Tsar and Autocrat of Great, Little, and White Russia, followed by a long list including the King­ dom of Poland, the Dukedom of Lithuania, and the Khanate of Kazan, ending with etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Another meaning of narod­ nost, popular spirit, could relate to an ethnic...

...Paul Debreczeny Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Paul Debreczeny Zhitie Aleksandra Boldinskogo Pushkin s Elevation to Sainthood in Soviet Culture Rvel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pecherskii, the fu­ ture writer, was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Kazan in 1837...

... Russia would not concern us here had not his presence in Russia involved German factors which again drew Russia s attention to her Teutonic neighbor. There was, for example, in the great Kazan Cathedral on the beautiful old Nevski Prospect, perhaps the finest boulevard in pre-World War Russia, amid...

... Russian praxis, see William Brumfield, The Origins ofModernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley, 1991). 6 The most notable exception was the ongoing construction of Alexei Shchusev s Kazan Railway Station in Moscow. Designed in 1911 and begun in 1914, it was not completed until 1940. Peoples...