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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics is considered to be a seminal work in Dostoevsky studies as well as an important contribution to literary theory. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Bakhtin introduces a number of key concepts, such as polyphony and carnivalisation , to elucidate what he saw as unique in Dostoevsky's literary art. [ 6 ]
Poems and Problems (ISBN 0-07-045724-7) is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. It consists of 39 poems originally written in Russian and translated by Nabokov, 14 poems written in English, and 18 chess problems. One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith," in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of his 1955 novel ...
In June 2024, after finally giving up on Russian authorities getting the message, the Russian exiles revealed that Gennady Rakitin was a hoax and the Z poems were translated from old Nazi poems. [1] According to the participants, this hoax was created to debunk Putin's claim of anti-Nazism in Russian invasion of Ukraine and showcase ...
A Moscow military court has sentenced a Russian poet to seven years in prison for verses questioning the morality of Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a letter he wrote to a Russian activist.
A Russian poetry competition has banned transgender people from submitting entries this year, in what it says is an effort to protect traditional values. The Andrei Dementyev All-Russian Poetry ...
Russian formalism was a school of literary theory in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity ...
In his metrical studies, following in the footsteps of Andrey Bely, he applied statistical procedures to the study of Russian poetry [3] and succeeded in "raising versification to a quantified science". [4] His other major works include On Poetry (1929), A Short Course in Poetics (5th edition -Leningrad, 1931), and many articles. Tomashevsky's ...
After October 2007, Yevtushenko divided his time between Russia and the United States, teaching Russian and European poetry and the history of world cinema at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and at Queens College of the City University of New York as well as at Florida Atlantic University. In a 1995 interview, he said, "I like very much the ...