Russian Performances

Russian Performances
Author: Julie Buckler
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0299318303

Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first time and shows that performance is a vital means for understanding Russia's culture from the reign of Peter the Great to the era of Putin. These twenty-seven essays encompass a diverse range of topics, from dance and classical music to live poetry and from viral video to public jubilees and political protest. As a whole they comprise an integrated, compelling intervention in Russian studies. Challenging the primacy of the written word in this field, the volume fosters a larger intellectual community informed by theories and practices of performance from anthropology, art history, dance studies, film studies, cultural and social history, literary studies, musicology, political science, theater studies, and sociology.

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933
Author: V. Hohman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-08-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230119905

Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories
Author: Maxim Gorky
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 1436
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays Introduction The Wedding The Jubilee A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot The Choice of a Tutor The Inspector General Savva The Life of Man Short Stories The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch Essay on Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134569076

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.

Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe

Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe
Author: Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110494779

The book analyses the collective career of the artistic profession in Brno and Vilnius and the necessity to copy the behavior of the elites of the Old Regime. The "noble" values, which shaped the artistic careers in the 19th century press, were charity, good taste, cosmopolitism and patriotism. The newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values.

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Russian Federation 1999

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Russian Federation 1999
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9264180117

This review of the Russian Federation's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation.

Red Gold

Red Gold
Author: Grigori Raiport
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

In the 1988 Winter Olympics, the Soviet bloc athletes won 56 medals, while the United States won six. Written by the former sports psychologist for the Soviet Olympic team, this book reveals Russian and East German techniques for peak performance training.