Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Slavic Languages and Literatures"
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Anna Alchuk (1955-2008)
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Bathhouses, Hustlers, and a Sex Club: The Reception of Mikhail Kuzmin's Wings
(University of Texas Press, 2000)The bathhouse, resembling but not identical with the Finnish sauna, was one of the oldest features of Russian life, as common in the cities as in the countryside. In the cities, bathhouses varied from luxurious establishments ... -
Boundary Issues in Three Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Mandelstam, Aronzon, Shvarts)
(2019-01-07)This dissertation examines works by three twentieth-century Russian poets in which the construction, dismantling, crossing, and blurring of boundaries plays an important role. Boundaries are understood in a variety of ... -
Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry
(2016-05-18)Since its inception in 1918, Soviet children’s literature was acclaimed as innovative and exciting, often in contrast to other official Soviet literary production. Indeed, avant-garde artists worked in this genre for the ... -
Held Captive: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Aesthetics of Constraint
(2016-05-17)This dissertation examines a counterintuitive artistic imperative that emerged from the struggles of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov with an aesthetic problem of Kantian provenance. These two authors are widely considered ... -
How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's Political Representation
(SAGE Publications, 2008)Most studies find that the substantial cross-national variation in women's legislative representation is not explained by cross-national differences in socioeconomic development. By contrast, this note demonstrates that ... -
“I Whisper Into the Radio Ear”: Radio Sound and Russian Modernist Poetics
(2016-09-12)In 1924, the Soviet “electrification” was followed by “radiofication,” a gradual introduction of broadcast radio that led to novel forms of newscasts, political propaganda, and creative formats. This dissertation is the ... -
Il Paradosso Dello Spirito Russo: Piero Gobetti and the Genius of Liberal Revolution
(2016-05-17)This dissertation examines Piero Gobetti’s activity as a student of Russian language and culture, and proposes that it be understood as a formative phase in a larger process of self-construction, through which Gobetti ... -
Khronika: Soviet Newsreel at the Dawn of the Information Age
(2012-10-31)This dissertation considers ten years in the life of one word. Between 1918 and 1928, khronika—the Russian word that describes newsreel filmmaking—became the site of extensive debates about the aesthetics and social ... -
Mikhail Eremin pishet stikhotvorenie ‘Perevod'
(Izdatel'stvo "Rostok", 2013) -
Mirrors and Metarealists: The Poetry of Ol'ga Sedakova and Ivan Zhdanov
(W. S. Maney & Son, Ltd., 2006)Ol´ga Sedakova and Ivan Zhdanov, two prominent contemporary metarealist poets, depart from traditional mirror poems’ reliance on straightforward reflection or description. Their mirror poems elucidate their idiosyncratic ... -
(Mis)understanding the Cossack Icon
(Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2006) -
Multivalent Russian Medievalism: Old Russia Through New Eyes
(2016-05-12)This thesis explores representations of medieval Russia in cultural and artistic works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an eye to the shifting perceptions of Russia’s cultural heritage demonstrated ... -
News That Stays New
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2014)The 2014 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Distinguished Professor Lecture entitled "News That Stays New," is presented, as given by scholar Stephanie Sandler on January 11 ... -
On Grief and Reason, On Poetry and Film: Elena Shvarts, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Tarkovsky
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) -
The Passions of Bohdan Krawciw
(Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2011) -
The Reception of Horace in the Courses of Poetics at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy: 17th-First Half of the 18th Century
(2014-10-21)For the first time, the reception of the poetic legacy of the Latin poet Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) in the poetics courses taught at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy (17th-first half of the 18th century) has become the subject of a ... -
Remembering Elena Shvarts
(Informa UK Limited, 2010) -
Remembering Yalta: The Politics of International History
(Columbia University, Harriman Institute, 2009) -
Rules of Disengagement: Author, Audience, and Experimentation in Ukrainian and Russian Literature of the 1970s and 1980s
(2015-09-23)Is there a direct correlation between the degree of an artist’s participation in ideologically defined discursive practices and the aesthetic value and expressive innovation of her or his work? How does the concept of the ...