Product Description: The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon, but it also tries to describe cultural mechanisms characteristic in the so-called border situations, on a specific example...read more

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium, highlighting our epoch’s need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination, adaptation can build upon and drive the audience’s horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov’s drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.  

Product Description: Nabokov's art of prose, as it evolved over the half-a-century of concentrated creativity in two languages, is a prodigiously intricate phenomenon. Many of its fascinating secrets remain sealed, despite a torrent of interpretative literature...read more

Product Description: Das Thema der Monographie sind nichtlineare Prozesse, Oszillationen, Resonanzen, Pulsierungen und Schwingungen in Literatur und Kultur, die Edmund Burke als sublim und Immanuel Kant als erhaben bezeichnet haben und für die Walter Benjamin den Begriff der Jetztzeit, Theodor W...read more

Product Description: An excerpt from the FOREWORD by D. H. Lawrence. In his paragraph on The Russian Spirit, Shestov gives us the real clue to Russian literature. European culture is a rootless thing in the Russians. With us, it is our very blood and bones, the very nerve and root of our psyche...read more

Product Description: La littérature russe est-elle puritaine? Quelle place réserve-t-elle à l'amour charnel? S'efforce-t-elle toujours de spiritualiser l'Eros, comme le voudrait une certaine tradition critique? Peut-on saisir la spécificité de l'érotisme littéraire russe? Quelle en est l'évolution au XXe siècle? Le premier colloque international consacré à ces questions s'est tenu en juin 1989 à l'Université de Lausanne...read more

Product Description: L'œuvre d'Andreï Makine, depuis Au temps du fleuve Amour, Le Testament français et Le Crime d'Olga Arbélina jusqu'à Requiem pour l'Est, La Musique d'une vie et La Vie d'un homme inconnu, ne cesse de déployer une sensibilité historique et une fine connaissance des comportements humains, ceci souvent dans le contexte d'une thématique de l'exil et de la migrance...read more

Product Description: Andrey Bely, novelist, essayist, theoretician, critic, and poet, was a central figure in the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s, the most important literary movement in Russia in this century. Bely articulated a Symbolist aesthetic and originated a new approach to the study of Russian metrics and versification, giving rise to a new scholarly discipline that still thrives in the West...read more

Product Description: The AnnotatedWe represents the first fully annotated translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel in English. Generally recognized as the first modern anti-utopian novel, Zamiatin’s We has puzzled scholars and critics alike, for it is both serious and playful, full of games...read more

Product Description: In a style reminiscent of Anton Chekhov himself--realistic, intimate, and dynamic--Mikhail Chekhov shares unparalleled memories and insights, transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. He visits the places where his brother lived and worked and introduces the people he knew and loved, Leo Tolstoy and Piotr Tchaikovsky among them...read more

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Product Description: Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia—from Catherine the Great’s construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky’s elegiac meditations—ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe...read more