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Slavic Studies Forthcoming
The following Slavic Studies titles are comming soon in paper from Academic Studies Press:
Charms of Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture.
by Mark Lipovetsky
ISBN 978-1-934843-45-1
250 pp. cloth
$42.00
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Publication Date: October, 2010
The impetus for The Charms of Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial soviet culture, as well as into the post-soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through the analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-soviet tricksters - including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Shtirlitz, and a few others. The steady charisma of Soviet tricksters spreading from the 1920s to the 2000s is indicative of at least two fundamental features of both the soviet and post-soviet societies. First, tricksters reflect the constant presence of irresolvable contradictions and yawning gaps within the soviet (as well as post-soviet) social universe. Secondly, these characters epitomize the realm of cynical culture thus far unrecognized in Russian Studies. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means - its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s.
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition.
by Caryl Emerson
ISBN 978-1-934843-81-9
450 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: November, 2010
All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres or media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, that govern the transposer, audience, and critic. The practice of transposition, however, gives rise to a creative conflict: is there a limit to the amount of ornamentation, pressure, or dilution to which the “mediated” word can be subject? Finally, the more polemical of the essays included here are structured on the Bakhtinian notion of co-existing “plausibilities” and points of view. What a carnival approach can uncover in Pushkin that might have surprised and even pleased the poet, what a libretto or play script brings out that the “true original” hides: here the work of the creator and the critic can overlap in thrilling ways that respect the competencies of each. Includes an original Preface written by renowned Slavic scholar, David Bethea.
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
“I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky.
by Marat Grinberg
ISBN 978-1934843-73-4
400 pp. cloth
$45.00
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Publication Date: November, 2010
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg’s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky’s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism.
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European - Jewish Studies
Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel.
by Yuri Leving
ISBN 978-1-934843-11-6
280 pp. cloth
$40.00
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Publication Date: November, 2010
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ISBN 978-1-934843-97-0
$21.00
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Publication Date: November, 2010
Yuri Leving's Keys to “The Gift”: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novel’s first appearance in print, the work draws from a broad spectrum of existing material in a succinct and coherent way, as well as providing innovative analyses. The first part of the monograph, "The Novel," outlines the basic properties of The Gift ( plot, characters, style, and motifs) and reconstructs its internal chronology. The second part, "The Text," describes the creation of the novel and the history of its publication, public and critical reaction, challenges of the English translation, and post-Soviet reception. Along with annotations to all five chapters of The Gift, the commentary provides insight into problems of paleography, featuring unique textological analysis of the novel based on the author's study of the archival copy of the manuscript.
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter.
by Oliver Smith
ISBN 978-1-936235-17-9
250 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: November, 2010
Widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the idea of the 'spiritualization of matter', which Soloviev described as the 'task' of humanity, Smith constructs a rounded picture of his overall importance to an understanding of nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity. Reviews:Oliver Smith’s Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter is one of the best recent works in English about Soloviev, indeed about Russian philosophy in general. It tackles complex philosophical concepts with unusual clarity, lucidity and cohesion, exploring the evolution of Soloviev’s philosophical system, and offering detailed and nuanced analyses of the relationships of Soloviev's ideas with those of his great predecessors (Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Jewish Kabbala etc.).
--Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000.
by John E. Bowlt
ISBN 978-1-934843-77-2
350 pp. paper
$55.00
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Publication Date: December, 2010
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
A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoi's Anna Karenina.
by Gary Browning
ISBN 978-1-936235-18-6
132 pp. cloth
$29.00
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Publication Date: August, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-936235-23-0
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Publication Date: August, 2011
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 unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna’s momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky’s disastrous steeplechase. Within this labyrinth of symbol and allegory lies embedded much of the novel’s most significant meaning. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Russian literature, Tolstoy, symbol, allegory, structuralism, and moral criticism.
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
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, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-936235-45-2
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Publication Date: April, 2011
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
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