All the Same The Words Don't Go Away

Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition

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Caryl Emerson

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Hardback

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History

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All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the riddle of Pushkin's life, why "Tolstoy versus Dostoevsky," how Chekhov reads Tolstoy, why Kundera dislikes Doestoevsky and Tolstoy dislikes Shakespeare. The final section addresses the transposition of classic literary texts into other media through musical works by Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. Throughout, the fundamental heroes are Pushkin's Tatiana Larina and Boris Godunov. This volume will be of interest to comparativists and students in interdisciplinary humanities.

Author Biography:

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, with a co-appointment in Comparative Literature. Research interests include Mikhail Bakhtin, 19th-century Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Russian opera and vocal music (especially Musorgsky), and the Russian critical tradition. Her most recent book was The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (2008).

Release date Australia

November 18th, 2010

Author

Caryl Emerson

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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Introduction by David Bethea

Series

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History

Dimensions

156x234x25

ISBN-13

9781934843819

Product ID

8098194

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