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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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Abstract Three species of sea spider (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) have been described from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Konservat‐Lagerstätte of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône: Palaeopycnogonides gracilis, Colossopantopodus boissinensis and Palaeoendeis elmii. These fossils were initially attributed to three extant families or superfamilies, justifying their use ...
Romain Sabroux +3 more
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Stirring by Periodic Arrays of Microswimmers [PDF]
The interaction between swimming microorganisms or artificial self-propelled colloids and passive (tracer) particles in a fluid leads to enhanced diffusion of the tracers. This enhancement has attracted strong interest, as it could lead to new strategies
de Graaf, Joost, Stenhammar, Joakim
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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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“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature
Abstract This article examines the construction of maternal subjectivity in the context of breastfeeding narratives in Russian literature, from the early 1800s to the 1920s. It draws on historical and contemporary socio‐economic contexts, in Russia and the West, to support its major contention that, in literature, breastfeeding and violence are ...
Muireann Maguire
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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.
Cano Sánchez, Esperanza +1 more
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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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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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