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The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass media. The Archaeology of Anxiety is the first extended analysis of why the Silver Age occupies such prominence in Russian collective consciousness. Galina Rylkova examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct-...

Fifty years after the Soviet regime cracked down totally on its creative artists, the combination of perestroika and his own initiative gave Vitaly Shentalinsky the chance to find out what really happened to Stalin's writer-victims and to relaim their stolen words. Shentalinsky went into the KGB's archives and brought to light the tragic stories of many great writers and a number of important works, including Bulgakov's diary, the final text of Mandelstam's lampoon on Stalin, poems prophetic of...

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impres...

Although her death at the tender age of 28 ended her promising literary career prematurely, Magda Isanos (1916-1944) ranks among the greatest poets in the history of Romanian literature. When Angels Sing: Poetry and Prose of Magda Isanos presents, for the first-time, English language versions of her writings, revealing their beauty, sensitivity, and aura of mysticism, along with a premonition of impending doom. Born in Iași, in northeastern Romania, Magda was raised in Chișinău (in what is now...

Este ensaio propoe a novela grafica como um genero literario, tendo como eixo estruturador a obra teorica de Rodolph Toepffer, e o seu conceito de literatura em estampas, um novo genero escrito atraves de texto e imagem. Centrado nos generos narrativos, dara especial destaque ao romance, cuja forma proteica permite assimilar novas formas romanescas, nomeadamente a novela grafica. No universo da novela grafica, a adaptacao de obras literarias, para alem de constituir uma pratica corrente, definid...

The Narratologiaseries publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law. The series publishes in German and E...

This study of post-war Polish intellectual history analyzes the complex interface between politics and literature under communism. It suggests that it was not the Catholic Church but the writers of the lay-left who were the most consistent critics and opponents of Stalinism.

From the earliest reviews of his poetry, readers were deeply divided on the merits of William Wordsworth's work. John Williams looks in detail at the major poems and discusses the critical issues that have dominated discussions of Wordsworth's compositions since they first began to appear in print after 1798. Beginning with a fresh assessment of the controversies that developed around Lyrical Ballads, the chapters trace the evolution of both Wordsworth's poetry and his reputation through to hi...

Die Autorin erschliesst mit dem conduct book fur junge Damen einen in der anglistischen Forschung vernachlassigten Schrifttypus. Diese Textsorte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts ist als fruhburgerlicher Typ von Ratgebertexten im Geiste des Zeitalters der Aufrichtigkeit interpretiert worden. Jedoch gelten conduct books fur Frauen seit Mary Wollstonecrafts "Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792) als Anleitung zur Unaufrichtigkeit. Die Autorin setzt an diesem Widerspruch an und unterzieht elf Texte...

Johann Friedrich Schink gehoert zu den vielseitigsten Dramatikern der Goethezeit. Bereits 1775 gewann er mit Gianetta Montaldi den Hamburger Trauerspiel-Preis und erregte mit seiner Verspottung des Sturm und Drang im Marionettentheater grosse Aufmerksamkeit. Es folgen zahlreiche weitere Dramen, noch wichtiger ist aber seine Rolle als Kritiker, Dramaturg und Theatermacher in Graz, Hamburg, Hannover und Wien. Schink beteiligte sich am neuen Genre kritischer Auffuhrungsberichte, etwa mit Ueber Broc...