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Slavic Studies Forthcoming
The following Slavic Studies titles are comming soon in paper from Academic Studies Press:
From Symbolism to Socialist Realism: A Reader.
edited by Irene Masing-Delic
ISBN 978-1-936235-42-1
400 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. This collection of critical- theoretical articles, cultural and historical analyses, literary manifestos and declarations of literary aesthetics, memoirs of revolutionary terrorism and arrests by the NKVD, political denunciations and “literary vignettes” captures the spirit of this period in a nutshell. The voices of this “polyphonic” READER are diverse: Briusov, Savinkov, Ivanov-Razumnik, Kollontai, Tsvetaeva, Shklovsky, Olesha, Zoshchenko, Zhdanov, Grossman, Evtushenko and others. The range of specialists on Russian culture represented here is equally broad: Clark, Erlich, Falen, Grossman, Nilsson, Peace, Poznansky, Siniavskii, Volkov and others. Together they evoke and illuminate a complex and tragic era.
Series: Cultural Syllabus
A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000.
by John E. Bowlt
ISBN 978-1-934843-77-2
350 pp. paper
$95.00
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Publication Date: June, 2013
A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000 focuses on the artists, ideas and movements which contributed to Russia’s cultural renaissance during the first years of the twentieth century and continued to provide Soviet and then post-Soviet art with its distinguishing characteristics. Through comparative essays regarding the Silver Age, the avant-garde, or Constructivism and the applied arts, in addition to appreciations of individual artists such as of Chagall, Filonov, Kandinsky, Malevich, Miasoedov, Nikritin, Popova, Rodchenko and Tatlin, A Century of Russian Art describes the principal semaphores of modern Russian art, concentrating on Symbolism and the plastic arts, the move towards abstract painting, the time of Revolution, the ascendancy of Socialist Realism, and the non-conformist trends.
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader.
edited by Dennis G. Ioffe, Frederick H. White
ISBN 978-1-936235-29-2
350 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: April, 2012
The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the major figures, movements and manifestos of the period. Scholarly attention is given to literature, visual arts, cinema and theatre in an attempt to capture the complex nature of the modernist movement in Russia. This book would be especially relevant for university courses on the Russian twentieth century as well as for those looking for a comprehensive approach to the various movements and artistic expressions that constitute the Russian avant-garde.
Series: Cultural Syllabus
"Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics.
by Boris Uspenskij, Viktor Zhivov, translated by Marcus C. Levitt
ISBN 978-1-936235-49-0
500 pp. cloth
$99.00
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Publication Date: April, 2012
Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia’s cultural development, these essays examine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.
Series: Out of the Series
Biography and Memory: The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors.
by Kaja Kazmierska
ISBN 978-1-936235-78-0
450 pp. cloth
$109.00
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Publication Date: January, 2012
Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one’s roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, which mostly draws a demarcation line between wartime trauma and a new post-Holocaust life. Analyzed biographical stories collected from Israeli survivors indicate that such returns may be considered the last chapters of their wartime experiences. Survivors’ biographies are examined in the context of both Jewish and Polish memory. This book will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and to general readers.
Series: Jews of Poland
Bo, Jenny and I: Surviving the Holocaust in Britain: A Family Memoir.
by Huguette Herrmann
ISBN 978-1-936235-73-5
220 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: October, 2011
Bo, Jenny and I is a memoir describing the life of a young woman growing up in unusual circumstances, as well as a discussion of political and sociological effects of troubled times upon “ordinary people.” After an early childhood in pre-war Antwerp, the author, her formidable grandmother, and her young, unconventional working mother fled to England in 1940, upon Germany’s invasion of Belgium. As refugees, the family adapted to its changed circumstances and to life in World War II England. The political upheavals of the times are reflected in the life of this small family and its remarkable experiences.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
Essays on Russian Literature: Moral-Philosophical Configurations.
by Robert Jackson
ISBN 978-1-936235-56-8
377 pp. cloth
$89.00
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Publication Date: June, 2012
Essays on Russian Literature: Moral-Philosophical Configurations combines discussions of ethical, esthetic and philosophical interest raised, by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first (“Chance and Fate”): issues of freedom and responsibility, the necessity of free individual expression and yet the limits of will, or self-will; second (“Two Kinds of Beauty”): the unity of moral, esthetic, and spiritual categories, and the quest for the ideal; third (“Critical Perspectives”): examples of commentary that approaches art with a unified ethical and spiritual perspective (Dostoevsky, Gorky, V.I. Ivanov, and the partially dissenting Bakhtin); and fourth (“Poems of Parting”): three poems (works by Tyutchev, Severyanin, and Pushkin) involving parting, loss and recovery.
Series: Ars Rossika
Russian Idea: Jewish Presence: Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
by Brian Horowitz
ISBN 978-1-936235-61-2
200 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: November, 2011
In Russian Idea: Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian Jewish intellectuals— Semyon Dubnov, Boris Eikhenbuam, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers—were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European - Jewish Studies
Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature.
by Irina Reyfman
ISBN 978-1-936235-51-3
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: January, 2012
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging 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 service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The sections that follow bring together articles on Pushkin, writer and man, as seen by himself and others, essays on Leo Tolstoy, and other aspects of Russian literary and cultural history. In addition to examining little-studied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.
Series: Ars Rossika
Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries.
by Paul Manning
9781936235766
315 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: February, 2012
Manning examines the formation of nineteenth century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge European style publics as a strong claim to European identity. These attempts also produced a crisis of self-definition, as European Georgia sent newspaper correspondents into newly re-conquered Oriental Georgia, only to discover that the people of these lands were strangers. In this encounter, the community of ‘strangers’ of European Georgian publics proved unable to assimilate the people of the ‘strange land’ of Oriental Georgia. This crisis produced both notions of Georgian public life and European identity which this book explores.
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: A Companion.
by Diane O. Thompson
9781936235933
230 pp. Cloth
$65.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
In The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky achieved his fullest realization of his Christian ideal. He was also a realist, keenly aware of the dissonant, contending views ranged against it which play a powerful role in the novel’s dialogue. This study explores the tension between Dostoevsky’s aspirations and the ideological challenges and tragic reality represented in his last novel. It points out significant passages for discussion whilst highlighting distinctive features of Dostoevsky’s poetics. It asks how he attempted to reconcile his pluralist vision with Christian claims to universal truth without lapsing into philosophical relativism. It is hoped that this study may stimulate the thinking of non-specialist readers and Dostoevsky scholars as well as contributing to a wider debate on the problem of persuasively and artistically representing a Christian ideal in our post-Christian age.
Series: Companions to Russian Literature
'I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary': The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms.
by Anthony Anemone, Peter Scotto
9781936235964
250 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: June, 2012
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 notebooks provide an intimate look at the daily life and struggles of one of the central figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. While Kharms's stories have been translated and published in English, these diaries represents an invaluable source for English-language readers who having already discovered Kharms in translation desire to learn about the life and times of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power.
Series: Out of the Series
Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity.
by Efraim Sicher
978936235957
270 pp. cloth
$80.00
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Publication Date: August, 2012
Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture and all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem.This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel’s work. It looks at Babel’s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the “Jewishness” of their work.
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European - Jewish Studies
Checking out Chekhov: A Companion to Anton Chekhov’s Plays.
by Sharon Carnicke
9781936235919
200 pp. Cloth
$60.00
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Publication Date: November, 2012
Theatres world-wide embrace Chekhov’s handful of plays with a fervor second only to Shakespeare’s. Whatever their native language or culture, audiences often see themselves in his Russian characters, making Chekhov seem an author who easily transcends his own culture and time.Nonetheless, students, actors, and audiences alike are often initially puzzled by Chekhov’s dramatic texts. Are they comic or tragic, ironic or sincere, starkly familiar or willfully elusive? How can his often seemingly irrelevant dialogue create dynamic performances? In his stories and plays alike, Chekhov challenges his readers to diagnose his characters’ desires, opinions, heartaches and joys in the same way that doctors diagnose illness—by attending closely to apparently trivial details. In the plays—where narrative voice is absent and characters speak for themselves—reading under a microscope becomes all the more necessary.The expert attention that Carnicke pays to the performative dimensions of Chekhov’s plays makes her book unique among the published guides to Chekhov’s works.
Series: Companions to Russian Literature
Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life and Literature.
978-1-936235-51-3
pp. cloth
$85.00
Order
Publication Date: February, 2012
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging 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 service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The sections that follow bring together articles on Pushkin, writer and man, as seen by himself and others, essays on Leo Tolstoy, and other aspects of Russian literary and cultural history. In addition to examining little-studied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.
Series: Ars Rossika
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