Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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The Adventures of Pushkin in Scandinavia: A Survey of Pushkin's Translations into Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish [PDF]
This article is a survey of translations of Pushkin’s works into Scandinavian languages: Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern researchers to Pushkin's heritage and their desire to designate his ...
Evgenia V. Vorobyeva
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Onomastics in Pushkin Studies: The Names Larin, Larina, Lariny in Eugene Onegin [PDF]
The paper discusses the literary proper names Larin, Larina, Lariny (the Larins) from Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin, aiming to identify the most important factors behind the choice of this surname.
Anatoly A. Fomin
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Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin
Abstract This essay distinguishes flight as a salient trope throughout multiple Pelevin texts: Omon Ra (1992), Chapaev and the Void (1996), Generation P (1999), Empire V (2006), and Love for Three Zuckerbrins (2014). It examines flight through the aesthetics of the sublime—classical, (post)‐Soviet, and postmodern.
Sofya Khagi
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This article attempts to approach the discovery of what Dostoevsky called Pushkin’s ‘great secret’. In his essay ‘Pushkin’, Dostoevsky wrote that the poet had ‘a capacity for universal sympathy’.
Gilmanov V. Kh. , Kosinsakaya А. S.
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Crime and Punishment: Choreography of Text and Text of Choreography [PDF]
Here is analyzed Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment not as being translated into choreography, but from the point of view of Dostoevsky’s own “choreography” of visualized metaphors of movements, constituting the encoded text of the novel.
Tatiana A. Boborykina
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New findings and a new species of the genus Ammothea (Pycnogonida, Ammotheidae), with an updated identification key to all Antarctic and sub-Antarctic species [PDF]
Specimens of the pycnogonid genus Ammothea collected during the Polarstern cruise XXIII/8 (23 November 2006–30 January 2007) were studied. Nine species were recognized in this collection: Ammothea bentartica, A. bicorniculata, A.
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Pushkin’s Trigorskoye as a Source of Myth-making: Fiction Versus Pragmatics [PDF]
In 1824 Pushkin was exiled to his mother’s estate Mikhailovskoye, where he was to stay until 1826. Then he was set free by the enthroned Tsar Nicholas I.
Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva
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The functions of A. S. Pushkin’s intertext in Yu. N. Tynyanov’s novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar [PDF]
The article focuses on the formal and content role of Pushkin’s intertext in Yu. N. Tynyanov’s novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar. Diff er ent ways of introducing quotes, references, allusions to A. S. Pushkin’s works are revealed.
Dronova, Tatiana Ivanovna
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Dostoevsky’s “Pushkin Speech” as the Archetext of English Pushkin Studies of the 20th Century [PDF]
The article highlights the problem of the influence of Dostoevsky’s “Pushkin Speech” on the development of English Pushkin studies in the period from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Svetlana B. Koroleva
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