This dissertation examines literary style and problematics of genre in the writing of Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
Lubki—cheap single-sheet prints produced via woodcut or copperplate engravings—were manufactured in Russia’s major cities throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They featured illustrations and short …
The relationship between food and the public changed drastically between the early years of the Russian revolution and Stalin’s rise to power. This essay explores …
This dissertation examines the cases of contact between Russian and Czech culture using a constructivist approach to nationalism, and demonstrates the role of individual personalities …
This study explores the historical lack of an affirmative discourse of matrimonial sexuality in Russian Orthodoxy and religious thought. The study makes the case that …
The purpose of this dissertation is to facilitate a better understanding of the connection between Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Russian …
Weaving together literature, historical texts, and feminist theory, this study follows the development of the tradition of Russian women's writing and depictions of the everyday …
This study revisits a well-known, but long-ignored Russian literary type—the so-called “superfluous man”—who emerges out of Russia’s growing pains in response to the French Revolution, …
Bringing to the discussion unreprinted and uncollected articles and essays of Vladislav Khodasevich, in addition to the existing editions of his literary criticism, this dissertation …