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Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honour of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in different contexts and to different audiences, f...

"Resurrection" (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, "Resurrection" is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end...

This monograph aims to offer an in-depth critical analysis of Lermontov's novel, in the light of the latest criticism on the work. A review of the critical reception of the novel from publication up to the present day is offered in the introduction, and there is a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources. This is followed with analysis of the novels' five consistent stories, as well as its introductory apparatus, to produce new critical insights into the text. Particular stress is laid on...

A critical overview of the work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), a major Russian (and then American) poet and essayist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. This comprehensive examination redefines his relevance with regard to the recent past, with an overview of some problems of post-Soviet aesthetics, and the future.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre. Morris' unique and insightful study re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source...

In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who passes his days in private dream worlds experiences a sexual awakening spurred by his family's scandalous tenant. In these and other stories, the modernist writer Alexei Remizov offers a panorama of Russian mythology, the supernatural, rura...

Childhood (Detstvo) appeared in 1852 and was Lev Tolstoy's first published work. Together with Boyhood (Otrochestvo) and Youth (Iunost') it forms a trilogy which, though fictional, is deeply rooted in Tolstoy's autobiography. As the first-person narrator grows out of childish innocence, he develops a growing awareness of the degree of deception inherent in adult behaviour and the extent to which he himself is increasingly capable of deception. Remarkable in its own right for its clear-sighted po...

Das literarische Danzig zwischen 1793 und 1945 - das ist die faszinierende Geschichte von Literatur in der Provinz, aus der Provinz und uber die Provinz. Die am Rand des deutschen Sprachgebiets liegende Stadt verfolgte die wesentlichen Entwicklungen der deutschen Literatur, ohne jemals selbst zu einem literarischen Zentrum zu werden. Fur die polnische Literatur gewann sie erst seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts Bedeutung. Der Autor zeichnet auf reicher Quellengrundlage Leben und Werk von Autoren...

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between great romantic ideas and realities of everyday life. A substantial part deals with the genesis, outbrea...

Noch nie in der Geschichte der Forschung zum deutsch-polnischen Sprachkontakt wurde der Thematik des polnischen Einflusses auf das Deutsche so viel Platz eingeraumt. Basierend auf dem schlesischen Dialekt und unter Berucksichtigung des etymologischen Kontextes der Polonismen beantwortet diese Arbeit drei zentrale Fragen: Auf welche Domanen und in welchen Proportionen verteilte sich das polnische Lehngut im alltaglichen Sprachgebrauch in Schlesien? Auf welche Art verlief die Integration der polni...