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Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Melanie Jones replied to the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts and submissions is now rolling.
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Melanie Jones started the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexp…[Read more]
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Ann Komaromi started the topic Delegate Assembly Representative – Call for nominations in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
We are seeking a candidate suggested by the membership of the Russian and Eurasian Forum to be our Delegate Assembly representative (info on the position can be found here: https://governance.mla.hcommons.org). Members may nominate themselves for this position. Please send your name or the name of the member suggested, affiliation, department,…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
In the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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egoodwin started the topic Yuri Tynianov's novel reaches English readers – after 90 years in the discussion
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
English-speaking readers can now enjoy a major Russian novel that appeared 90 years ago – for the first time. In June 2018 Look Multimedia published a new full English translation of the Soviet/Russian writer and critic Yuri Tynianov’s 1929 novel Death of the Vazir Mukhtar (Smert’ Vazir-Mukhtara in Russian).
Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar is one of…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years ago
The article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years ago
How does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Vitaly Chernetsky deposited Learning from Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk and Its Legacies in Queer and Trans* Cultural Representation in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years ago
Slide show to accompany my paper.
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
In the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex. Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
The purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Vertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Vertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.
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John MacKay deposited Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914-1916) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Dziga Vertov’s education during the early years of World War: his changing personal situation as a war refugee, the connections he made at the Institute, the ideas that exerted an influence.
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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
On Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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