Tsar and God and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics
by Uspenskij, Boris Andreevič, Živov, Viktor Markovič, Linguist, Sowjetunion, Levitt, Marcus C., Slawist, USA, Živov, Viktor Markovič, Linguiste, Union Soviétique, Živov, Viktor Markovič, Linguist, Soviet Union, Levitt, Marcus C., Slavist, United States, Levitt, Marcus C., Slaviste, Etats-Unis
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Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewi…
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first (…
