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Women's Works in Stalin's Time
"... Holmgren gives a superb comparative analysis of the literary legacy of the two memoirists." -- Times Literary Supplement "Beth Holmgren's book is a highly original and very productive critical appraisal of the work of Likiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam." -- The Russian Review "This fine book, with its copious, informative notes and good bibliography, will interest students of 20th-century literature and theorists of autobiography, feminist criticism, and gender studies."Â -- Choice "... a fascinating book that provides a powerful testament to the strength and endurance of women in a particularly ghastly period of history." -- Signs "... impressive, eloquently written... an integrated comparative study of two very different female survivors of the Stalinist night." -- Caryl Emerson "... a bold scholarly act.... The writing is excellent throughout." -- Barbara Heldt Two extraordinary women writers are evoked as models of women's heroic roles in preserving Russian culture in Stalin's time. A fresh and eloquent approach to the literature of the Stalinist age.
The Written World
From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web are usually considered the major influences on the way we share stories. Less well known is the influence of Greek generals, Japanese court ladies, Spanish adventurers, Malian singers and American astronauts, and yet all of them played a crucial role in shaping and spreading literature as we know it today. The Written World tells the captivating story of the development of literature, where stories intersect with writing technologies like clay, stone, parchment, paper, printing presses and computers. Central to the development of religions, political movements and even nations, texts spread useful truths and frightening disinformation, and have the power to change lives. Through vivid storytelling and across a huge sweep of time, The Written World offers a new and enticing perspective on human history.
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch
In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin's Russia, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history, under him Russia also produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense and lasting power—from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the film Alexander Nevsky, and the novels The Maste...
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Die Macht der Schrift
Die Geschichte unserer Zivilisationen in den vergangenen vier Jahrtausenden ist eine Geschichte des geschriebenen Wortes. Die Verschriftlichung von Gründungsmythen, Erzählungen über Recht und Unrecht hat Weltreiche mehr verändert als Heerscharen von Soldaten. Martin Puchner zeigt in seinem beeindruckenden Werk, wie sechzehn Texte der Weltgeschichte, von Homers »Ilias« bis zu »Harry Potter«, unseren Blick auf die Welt und unser Handeln darin geprägt haben. Und dass wir auch heute noch mit Fug und Recht behaupten können, in einer geschriebenen Welt zu leben, die ohne die Errungenschaften eines Alphabets, ohne die Kunstfertigkeit des Schreibens, ohne die Fantasie von Autoren, ohne das Wissen um den Papierdruck eine vollkommen andere wäre. Schließlich vollzieht Puchner auch die Umbruchsphase der Digitalisierung nach und fragt, was sie für unsere Gegenwart und Zukunft bedeutet.
Reference Guide to World Literature
Covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Includes biographical-bibliographical entries on nearly 500 writers and approximately 550 entries focusing on significant works of world literature. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.
The Times Index
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
