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Description:: In this dissertation, I argue that the locus of Tsvetaevaseemingly conflicted views about art and the criteria for its evaluation is the tension between the rational, ethical, and distinctively human in us, and the irrational spontaneous impulse. Tsvetaevaterm for the irrational impulse is stikhiia, a force of nature that is...
Keyword:: Russian Literature, 20th Century Russian Poetry, and Marina Tsvetaeva
Subject:: Slavic Languages and Literatures
Creator:: Max Rosochinsky
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/24/2019
Date Modified:: 11/24/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Beside the Point: Places in Nabokov's The Gift Peter-John Thomas This dissertation is devoted to the habits of thought embodied in Vladimir Nabokov's last Russian novel, The Gift. Nabokov is famous for creating intricate verbal structures which, however, resist conversion into rigorous propositions. Two major categories of critical response have...
Keyword:: Literature and Slavic and East European
Subject:: Slavic Languages and Literatures
Creator:: Peter John Thomas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-06-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: his dissertation traces the presence of early Soviet satire in several major prose works. My project examines Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Yuri Olesha's Envy, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit, and Mikhail Zoshchenko's prose trilogy (Youth Restored, The Sky-Blue Book and Before Sunrise) as literary works that incorporated and...
Keyword:: Russian Popular Culture, Soviet Reader, Soviet Satire, Soviet Mass Culture, Russian Modernism, and Soviet Literature
Subject:: Slavic Languages and Literatures
Creator:: Maria Isabel Kisel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation investigates the nature of apocalyptic fiction in the first Soviet decade. In my introduction, I consider the secondary or underground status that apocalyptic thought assumed during this period vis a vis the prevailing cultural ethos of utopianism. I assert that Russian literary apocalyptic persisted as a genre by...
Keyword:: modernism, Olesha, myth, apocalypse, Pil'nyak, and Mandel'stam
Subject:: Slavic Languages and Literatures
Creator:: Clairon C Palmer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/26/2018
Date Modified:: 07/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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