Author: Harold B. SegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Twentieth-century Russian Drama
Author: Harold B. SegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Eight Twentieth-century Russian Plays
Author: Timothy LangenPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113732
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Russia produced more notable drama in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period of burgeoning creativity have been only sporadically available in English, and others have never been translated before. In Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays, Timothy Langen and Justin Weir introduce American students and general readers to the classics of twentieth-century Russian drama.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Author: Evgeny DobrenkoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828231
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.
Twentieth-century Russian Plays
Author: Franklin D. ReevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Twentieth-Century Russian Drama
Author: Harold B. SegalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555546908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This work provides a survey, in English, of Russian drama since Chekhov. Segal discusses every major aspect of Russian dramatic literature in this century, from Gorky's pre-revolutionary plays through popular drama in the age of the New Economic Policy (1921-28) to the regimentation of the Stalinist and Cold War eras. Segal pays special attention to the suppressed works of experimenters, avant-gardists and dissidents that existed alongside the official government-sanctioned drama of Socialist Realism. New to this edition is material on dramatists writing since the period of perestroika and the collapse of communism.
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Author: Katharine HodgsonPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation’s culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin’s second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel′shtam, their works and their lives. In the last twenty years many critics have discussed the possibility of various coexisting canons rooted in official and non-official literature and suggested replacing the term "Soviet literature" with a new definition – "Russian literature of the Soviet period". Contributions to this volume explore the multiple factors involved in reshaping the canon, understood as a body of literary texts given exemplary or representative status as "classics". Among factors which may influence the composition of the canon are educational institutions, competing views of scholars and critics, including figures outside Russia, and the self-canonising activity of poets themselves. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic yearnings in some quarters for a single canon, the current situation is defiantly diverse, balancing both the Soviet literary tradition and the parallel contemporaneous literary worlds of the emigration and the underground. Required reading for students, teachers and lovers of Russian literature, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry brings our understanding of post-Soviet Russia up to date.
Twentieth-century Russian Drama
Author: Andrew Robert MacAndrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Author: Evgeny DobrenkoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521875358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
A History of Twentieth-century Russia
Author: Robert ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.
Actors Cross the Volga
Author: Joseph MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429774753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
First published in 1946. In this study of Russian theatre, the author explores the developments of drama and the theatre throughout the nineteenth-century. Macleod examines imperial and serf theatres, the impact of Russian drama on the east and west, and the regeneration of theatre at the start of the twentieth-century. This title will be of great interest to students of Theatre Studies and Russian History.