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A "labyrinth of linkages" in tolstoy's anna karenina
The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. In Browning’s study, the author identifies and analyzes previously...
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A reader's guide to nabokov's 'lolita'
One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Reader’s Guide to Nabokov’s “Lolita” carries readers through the intricacies of Nabo...
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Blooming spaces
Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of the key yet unrecognized figure in the co...
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Born to be criminal
This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various di...
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By fables alone
A translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including “The People’s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807” and “Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii’s Epistle ‘To ...
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Complicating the female subject
In the 1930s, seven plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation as these women dared to question national myths, reinterpret the definition of subject, and subvert genre expectations. This study interrogates the feminism of these shocking dramas.
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Conrad and turgenev
The twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art, personality, and history. The analysis is based on...
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Conrad in france
In this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. The book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by several generations of critics, such as André Gide, André Maurois, and Ramón Fern...
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Cultures of economy in south-eastern europe
This volume focuses on cultures of economy in regions of the former Yugoslavia, examining narratives and poetics of economy in literature, film, and art, as well as in public discourse. It spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Socialist Yugoslavia, and the transitional and neol...
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Dostoyevsky, or the flood of language
Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking.
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Epic and the russian novel from gogol to pasternak
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative fo...
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Foreign countries of old age
This multidisciplinary collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, it widens our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity an...
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From post-yugoslavia to the female continent
Women’s writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and ...
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Hydropoetics
A study of human-water-power relationships in Eastern European cultures: an important contribution to the vibrant field of blue humanities.
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Ibsen at the theatrical crossroads of europe
Gianina Druta investigates the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Romanian theatre between 1894 and 1947.
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Immigrant baggage
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
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Joseph conrad and the voicing of textuality
Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality offers an original approach to Conrad's work rooted in linguistics and psychoanalytic theory. Claude Maisonnat provides fresh insight into the poetics of textuality by introducing the concept of textual voice, as opposed to the traditional conceptions o...
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Joseph conrad's polish soul
Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in remote parts of the world. In Joseph Conrad...
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Joseph conrad’s authorial self
Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self is organized around the category of the author with some illuminating aspects of Conrad’s Polishness as the major area of consideration. It starts with a theoretical treatment of Conrad’s authorship, continues through a focus on autobiography along with his creative...
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Joseph conrad’s texts and intertexts
A collection of studies that examine various aspects of Joseph Conrad’s literary art, with the organizing ideas being textuality and intertextuality
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Modern armenian drama
Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1871–1992), the plays explore such diverse themes science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the med...
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New insights into conrad and poland
This book studies Conrad’s literary works in relation to Polish literature, Polish reception of his oeuvre, and Conrad’s Polishness.
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On czeslaw milosz
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the ...
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Psychic empire
Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings.
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Rank and style
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging in topic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state servi...
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Some intertextual chords of joseph conrad’s literary art
This monograph groups studies that deal with intertextual aspects of Joseph Conrad’s literary art. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and the influence of earlier literary works upon his oeuvre, or the influence of Conrad’s texts upon literary work...
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Stanislaw brzozowski and the migration of ideas
As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. The essays in this volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski’s writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point.
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The european byron
This book considers how Byron’s cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron’s identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron’s work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His...
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The ghost of shakespeare
This first edition of the collected critical prose of Anna Frajlich, scholar of Polish literature and culture and award-winning Polish poet, presents comparative studies of major modern Polish writers, including Choromański, Grynberg, Herbert, Milosz, Schulz, Szymborska, and Wittlin.
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The goalkeeper
The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret” (Speak, Memory). The inaugural collection features contributi...
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The holocaust in central european literatures and cultures
Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towa...
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The post-chornobyl library
Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nucle...
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The russian twentieth century short story
The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectivel...
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Various dimensions of the other in joseph conrad’s fiction
This collection of studies examines the various types and uses of ideas of ”the other” and othering in Joseph Conrad’s fiction. It offers examinations of different aspects of the colonial other both in Africa and Latin America.
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Voices of jewish-russian literature
This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history.
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Wine in old and new bottles
This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxi...
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Worlds apart
Worlds Apart explores the ethics of representation by reading the works of twentieth-century writers who use the techniques of literary fiction to depict survival in concentration camps, ghettos, and besieged cities.
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Writing in red
Nergis Ertürk traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s.
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»truth« and fiction
Many influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. This volume analyzes the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its relationship with representations of the present in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
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“i am a phenomenon quite out of the ordinary”
In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these note...
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