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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 90 avhandlingar innehållade orden Russian Literature.
1. Shakespeare's sonnets in Russian : the challenge of translation
Sammanfattning : Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets have become the interest of several generations of Russian translators. Overall, after their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century, at least thirty-five Russian translations of the complete sonnet collection have been produced so far, though mostly during the last three decades. LÄS MER
2. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. LÄS MER
3. Metaistorija Bulata Okudžavy : Obraz dokumenta v romane Putešestvie diletantov
Sammanfattning : This study examines Okudzhava’s depiction of the process of documentalization of the past as a defining feature of the novel Puteshestvie diletantov, giving reason to consider it a form of metahistory, or an artistic statement on the subject of historical knowledge. The image of the document plays a central role in the novel Puteshestvie diletantov. LÄS MER
4. Rendering the Sublime : A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain
Sammanfattning : The present study is a reading of the folkloric fairy-tale poem The Swain (Mólodets) (1924) by the Russian Modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941).The poem represents a high point in Tsvetaeva’s experiments with Russian folk art, and it is thoroughly folkloric in its theme, forms of writing and poetic language. LÄS MER
5. Beyond the noise of time : readings of Marina Tsvetaeva’s memories of childhood
Sammanfattning : Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva’s work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet’s prose in general. LÄS MER