This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the bear…
"Focusing on Lolita but also addressing other major works (especially Speak, Memory and Pale Fire), the author asks whether the work of this writer whom many find cruel contains a moral message and, if so, why that message is so artfully concealed. Style Is Matter places Nabokov…
Introduction: Ideology and the ideological aesthetic -- The ruthless schemers of Tomsk and Atomsk: The Man from the USSR and The Waltz Invention -- Bits of my past litter the floor: ideology, epistemology, and the "Modernism of Underdevelopment" in the eye and despair -- "Violin…
This dissertation explores the ethical and aesthetic stakes of readers’ judgments by analyzing mock trials of literary characters that were performed in Soviet Russia and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Literary trials were part of a larger craze for public mock trials in the dec…
