Literary Reference Works

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist...

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dellarteHarlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and othershave been vagabonding the roads of Russian cu...

Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburgs famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying principle of material...

Professor Moynahan's object in this illuminating, critical survey has been to consider Lawrence entirely in his most important role...as the author...

In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of an...

Most contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and linguists think of language as basically a means by which speakers reveal their thoughts to othe...

This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the big wave of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part ...

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connec...

Imperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance o...

This far-ranging study develops Morsons concept of prosaics, which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novels unique ability to port...

Imperial Russias large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokovs most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastians passionat...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russias Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fi...