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  • Be as Children

    by Vladimir Sharov, Caryl Emerson ...
    Translated by Oliver Ready ...
    Series Book 0 - Dedalus Europe
    At the centre of Be as Children is an ailing Vladimir Lenin, infected not with syphilis, as some historians have claimed, but with Christian fervour. Regressing stroke by stroke to an infancy of his own, he renounces his faith in the proletariat and puts all his hope in the many children left homeless and orphaned by the Civil War. Only they will be loyal to the cause and only they can save it. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism

    Finding Christ among the Karamazovs

    by Paul J. Contino, Caryl Emerson ...
    In this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look at Alyosha's mentor, the Elder Zosima, and the way his role as a confessor and his vision of responsibility "to all, for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    by Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, J.A.E. Curtis, Radislav Lapushin, Catherine O’Neil, Alexandra Smith, Alexander Spektor, Jonathan Stone, Angela Brintlinger0, Irene Masing-Delic1, Caryl Emerson2 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Three Loves for Three Oranges

    Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev

    by Caryl Emerson, Alberto Beniscelli, Giulietta Bazoli, Domenico Pietropaolo, Ted Emery, Natalya Baldyga, Raissa Raskina, Vadim Shcherbakov, Laurence Senelick, Julia Galanina, Inna Naroditskaya, Natalia Savkina, Simon A. Morrison, John E. Bowlt ...
    Series series East European Music Studies
    In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges**—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte*****–***infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Chekhov's Letters

    Biography, Context, Poetics

    by Carol Apollonio, Radislav Lapushin, Rosamund Bartlett, Liya Bushkanets, Alexander Chudakov, Svetlana Evdokimova, Michael Finke, Elizabeth Geballe, Irina Gitovich0, Elena Gorokhova1, Serge Gregory2, Vladimir Kataev3, Alevtina Kuzicheva4, Vladimir Lakshin5, Matthew Mangold6, Zinovy Paperny7, Emma Polotskaya8, Dina Rubina9, Galina Rylkova0, Igor Sukhikh1, Caryl Emerson2, Sharon M. Carnicke3, John Douglas Clayton4, Robert Louis Jackson5, Robin Feuer Miller6, Katherine T. O'Connor7, Cathy Popkin8 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • All the Same The Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition

    by Caryl Emerson, David Bethea ...
    All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rabelais and His World, a new translation

    by Mikhail Bakhtin ...
    Translated by Sergeiy Sandler ...
    A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival.Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, laughter, the grotesque, and medieval and renaissance folk culture has been the inspiration for countless new ideas in the humanities, in literature and the arts, and throughout human culture over the last half century.Rabelais and His World is a study devoted ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Dialogic Imagination

    Four Essays

    by M. M. Bakhtin ...
    Translated by Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson ...
    These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Letter Killers Club

    by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ...
    The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with empty black ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by James E. Falen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili

    by Merab Mamardashvili, Annie Epelboin, Miglena Nikolchina ...
    Translated by Alisa Slaughter, Julia Sushytska ...
    Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European project, and literature. After many decades hiding in plain sight, he emerges as a Soviet thinker who ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

    Edited by Caryl Emerson, George Pattison, Randall A. Poole ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the historical background and context, the Handbook follows the leading figures and movements in modern Russian religious thought ... Read more

    $143.99 USD