A History of Women's Writing in Russia

A History of Women's Writing in Russia
Author: Adele Marie Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2002-07-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139433156

A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.

Gender and Russian Literature

Gender and Russian Literature
Author: Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521552585

A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards.

Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Author: Wendy Rosslyn
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1906924651

"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic presence in Russia's culture and society"--Publisher's description.

A History of Russian Women's Writing, 1820-1992

A History of Russian Women's Writing, 1820-1992
Author: Catriona Kelly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Written from a feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual analysis. Sections on women's writing in the periods 1820-1880, 1881-1917, 1917-1953, and 1953-1992 are followed by essays on individual writers.

A Plot of Her Own

A Plot of Her Own
Author: Sona Stephan Hoisington
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810112247

A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation. The female protagonists in the works examined are inextricably linked with the fundamental issues raised by the novels they inform; the interpretations offered strive not to be reductive or doctrinaire, not to be imposed from the outside but to arise from the texts themselves and the historical circumstances in which they were written. Authors discussed include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov, and the novels considered range from Fathers and Children to Zamyatin's anti-Utopian We. Throughout, the contributors new visions expand our understanding of the words and reveal new significance in them.

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Catriona Kelly
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-08-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191577502

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe

New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Rosalind Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527563367

Since the late 1980s, there has been an explosion of women’s writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe greater than in any other cultural period. This book, which contains contributions by scholars and writers from many different countries, aims to address the gap in literature and debate that exists in relation to this subject. We investigate why women’s writing has become so prominent in post-socialist countries, and enquire whether writers regard their gender as a burden, or, on the contrary, as empowering. We explore the relationship in contemporary women’s writing between gender, class, and nationality, as well as issues of ethnicity and post-colonialism.

Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture

Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture
Author: Helena Goscilo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317470036

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. This volume may thus be said to engage not only women's artistic production but, indeed, the best and most colourful of recent Russian culture. Treating contemporary Russian women's creativity, it approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives, from anti-gendered to feminist. Some of the essays introduce writers not previously well studied, others challenge conventional interpretations and assumptions, while still others yield original viewpoints through novel juxtapositions. In addition to offering insights into the various artists under analysis, the essays map the wide terrain of issues and methodologies proliferating in cultural criticism today, and mirror the diversity that is one of the most appealing features of women's creativity in contemporary Russia.

When Russia Learned to Read

When Russia Learned to Read
Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Studies in Russian Literature
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810118973

The rise of literacy in late nineteenth-century Russia, and its influence on "high literature" and low, and on economic development

A Double Life

A Double Life
Author: Karolina Pavlova
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0231549113

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything. A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.