Examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis... Læs mere
Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground... Læs mere
Brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and... Læs mere
Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials,... Læs mere
Examines the origin of the nineteenth-century Russian novel. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it... Læs mere
Film as Embodied Art reveals Stanley Kubrick as a genuine master of the art of embodying themental life of characters, a filmmaker... Læs mere
Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to... Læs mere
Presents a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky, a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian... Læs mere
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives. Despite his clever attempts to call his readers' attention to these introductions, they... Læs mere
An in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to resolving interpersonal... Læs mere
A new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. This inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide,... Læs mere
Examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the “Old Testament”... Læs mere