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The "Second Heritage Conference," organised by the Sharjah Institute for Heritage under the theme "Popular Heritage Through ...
The timing of much Russian literature — of Pushkin or Tolstoy — is perfect; but it is not like the timing of a well-made French play, where the proportions, the relations, and the development ...
So in Sorokin’s work the “malenky chelovek,” the small man of Russian literature, has become even smaller. Now he fits on a dish, drinks out of a thimble, but swears like a trooper.
Russian literature could not prevent the Gulags, but it did help prisoners survive them. The Russian state has no use for Russian culture unless it can be made to serve the state.
Russian Language and Literature Track I. Intended for students with no prior knowledge of Russian. A. ECS 100a (European Cultural Studies: The Proseminar) to be completed no later than the junior year ...
But this is not surprising to readers of 19th-century Russian Slavophile literature, or to the readers of the 19th-century Ukrainian literature that passionately opposed it in the name of truth ...
Launched to promote Russian literature on the global stage during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the new Dar (“Gift”) literary prize is already mired in controversy — and not ...
And really, accusing Russian literature of being “depressing” is as unfair as fat-shaming a woman. For one thing, fat-shaming won’t make anyone skinnier. It’s not a crime, it’s a choice.
John Glad, a scholar of Russian literature and language, a translator of emigre Russian literature into English, and a former professor of Russian at the University of Maryland, died Dec. 4 at a ...
When another inmate was hassling Justice Green recently, Green didn’t hit him. Instead, he tossed him the 19th-century Russian literature story he was reading at the time and said: Come back to ...