Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

Can the Petersburg text be understood as a response to a challenge Mickiewicz posed to Russian literature? Although Toporov’s famous work mentions the Polish poet by name, acknowledging his role in ...

On Wednesday, the Stanford Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures hosted a colloquium featuring Stuart H. Goldberg, who discussed the process of poets signaling, and readers interpreting, the ...

Russian politician Aleksey ... of the museum dedicated to Lithuanian poet Kristijonas Donelaitis. The institution will now be known as the Museum of Literature. Donelaitis was a Lutheran pastor ...

Another example is the poet Medbh McGuckian who has looked to earlier Russian literature for examples of women artists who ‘dedicated their lives to their craft’, who ‘never disgraced the art’, who ...

A monument to 19th-century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was unveiled ... scriptwriters; playwrights and literature translators. The federation’s aim is to increase the social significance ...

Lomonossov,- the scientist, the poet. Russian pseudo-classicism,- Loumarokov, Trediakovsky. Accession of Catherine the Great. French philosophy in Russia. Pseudo-classical literature. Want to keep ...

Professor of comparative literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ... and physician Angelus Silesius [1624–1677], and the Russian poet Velimir Khliébnikov [1885–1922]. Poetry can make ...

Russian language and literature encompasses research topics ranging from historical linguistics and general linguistic theory to sociological phenomena of the contemporary language, and from the ...