Literary Genres

Code: 031797
Skliarov, O.N
V Zagovore protiv Pustoty i Nebytiia”
Neotraditsionalizm v Russkoi Literature XX Veka
[ "Plotting against emptiness and oblivion" : Neo-traditionalism in the Russian literature of the 20th century ]
Moscow: PSTGU, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 23.00

This monograph studies the direction in Russian literature of the 20th century which departs from the avant-garde and postmodern literature with their "poetics of arbitrariness" on one hand and from normative directions on the other.

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Code: 018739
Tainoe Stanovitsia Iavnym…"
Memuary Sotrudnikov Sovetskoi Vneshnei Razvedki i Literatura o Nikh: Biobibliograficheskii Spravochnik
[ "The Secret became evident…" : Memoirs of soviet counter-intellegence agents and literature about them: Biobibliographic handbook ]
Moscow: Pashkov Dom, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This is a handbook of memoirs of soviet counter-intelligence agents and literature about them. There was an explosion of the literature of this genre in the last decade of the 20th - early 21st century.

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Code: 026946
Beglye Vzgliady: Novoe Prochtenie Russkikh Travelogov Pervoi Treti XX Veka
Sbornik Statei
[ A quick look: New interpretation of the Russian travelogues of the first third of the 20th century : Collected articles ]
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

In European literature the genre of travelogue has occupied a central place since the very beginning of Modern times. This book provides a detailed analysis of the Russian travelogues of the first third of the 20th century covering the works by A.

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Code: 024833
Slovo - Chistoe Vesel`e…"
Sbornik Statei v Chest` A.B. Pen`kovskogo
[ A word - pure fun : Collected articles in honor of A.B. Pen`kovskii ]
Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul`tury, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 52.00

This collection is published in honor of the well known Russian linguist and historian of culture Aleksandr Pen`kovskii (b. 1929). It contains works of his colleagues in the areas of his scholarly interests: theory and history of literature, semiotics, hermeneutics, phonetics, semantics, and dialect studies.

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Code: 019679
Tarkovskii, R.B., Tarkovskaia, L.R
Ezop na Rusi: Vek XVII
Issledovaniia. Teksty. Kommentarii
[ Aesop in Rus: 17th century : Research. Texts. Commentary ]
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

This book reviews the history of fable as a literary genre in Russia since the first translation of Aesop`s works into Old Russian in the 17th century. The collection of articles is arranged into three chapters: studies, texts, and comments.

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Code: 017199
Vetlovskaia, B.E
Analiz Epicheskogo Proizvedeniia
Problemy Poetiki
[ Analysis of epic work: Problems of poetics : Problemy Poetiki ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

Analysis of epic work: Problems of poetics

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Code: 007085-09B
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka: V 50 tomakh
Tom 9: Literaturnaia Parodiia
[ Anthology of satire and humor in Russia in the 20th century : Volume nine. Literary parody ]
Moscow: EKSMO-Press, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 23.40

Volume nine includes the best works in the genre of parody by 70 Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries, including classics: I. Annenskii, A. Arkhangel`skii, A. Blok, I. Bunin, Sasha Chernyi, K. Chukovskii, V.

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Code: 007085-09
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka: V 50 Tomakh
Tom 9: Literaturnaia Parodiia
[ Anthology of satire and humor in Russia in the 20th century : Volume nine. Literary parody ]
Moscow: EKSMO-Press, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.00

Volume nine, the last volume in the anthology. It includes works in the genre of parody by seventy Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries, including classics: I. Annenskii, A. Blok, I. Bunin, K. Chukovskii, V.

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Code: 007085-24
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka
Tom 24: Aforistika i Karikatura
[ Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century : Volume 24: Aphorisms and cartoons ]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2003, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Aphorism as a literary genre in Russia started with imitation and translation of European models and later, in the first quarter of the 19th century, turned into an independent genre of Russian literature.

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Code: 007085-44
Babel`, Isaak
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka
Tom 44: Isaak Babel`
[ Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century : Volume 44: Isaak Babel` ]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

The forty-fourth volume of the Anthology of Satire and Humor includes works by Isaac Babel: Autobiography, Odesskie Rasskazy, from “Konarmiia”, stories of various years, the play "Zakat", letters, documents, memoirs about him.

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Code: 007085-45
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka
Tom 45: Sergei Mikhalkov
[ Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century : Volume 45: Sergei Mikhalkov ]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

The forty-fifth volume of the Anthology of Satire and Humor includes works by Sergei Mikhalkov (b. 1913): poems for children and adults, tales, fables, plays, and a memoir of Nikita Mikhalkov about his father.

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Code: 007085-48
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka
Tom 48: Vlad Doroshevich
[ Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century : Volume 48: Vlad Doroshevich ]
: Eksmo, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

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Code: 007085-49
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka
Tom 49: "Krokodil" Vsekh Vremen i Narodov
[ Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century : Volume 49: "Krokodil" of all times and peoples ]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

The forty-ninth volume of the Anthology of Satire and Humor includes the best pieces from the satirical weekly Krokodil (Crocodile) started in the Russian Federation in 1922. Also included are some materials from his sister publications in every republic in the USSR.

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Code: 006577B
Maleto, E.I
Antologiia Khozhenii Russkikh Puteshestvennikov XII - XV vv

[ Anthology of travels of Russian wanderers of the 7th-15th centuries : ]
Moscow: Nauka, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.90

In olden times Russians traveled to other countries literally on their feet. The first travel reports about Byzantium, Palestine, Egypt, and other foreign lands were made by pedestrians: from Father Superior Daniil to Afanasii Nikitin.

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Code: 022789
Shenle, Andreas (Schonle, Andreas)
Podlinnost` i Vymysel v Avtorskom Samosoznanii Russkoi Literatury Puteshestvii 1790-1840

[ Authenticity and fantasy in the author`s self reflection in travel literature 1790-1840 : ]
St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

Travel literature, or travelogue, was an especially popular genre in Russian literature in the nineteenth century. This monograph studies the evolution of this genre from its birth to the end of the epoch of Romanticism and the correlations between authenticity and fantasy in the author`s self reflection.

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Code: 015308
Avtobiograficheskaia Praktika v Rossii i vo Frantsii

[ Autobiographical practice in Russia and in France : ]
Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This collection of works by Russian and French historians of literature studies autobiographies, memoirs, diaries and letters of the 18th-20th centuries in the context of the cultural interaction between the two countries.

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Code: 019590
Mezhdu Pravdoi i Lozh`iu
Otechestvennye Memuary XX Veka
[ Between truth and lie : Domestic memoirs of the 20th century ]
: In-t Rossiiskoi Istorii PAN, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

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Code: 032095
Bibleiskie Siuzhety v Drevnerusskoi Literature
Sbornik Statei
[ Bible plots in Old Russian literature : Sbornik Statei ]
Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This book is a collection of works on the use of Bible plots in Old Russian literature and social thought of the 11th to early 18th centuries. Among the contributors are scholars of the Old Slavic Literatures department of the Institute of World Literature and others.

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Code: 012579
Vinokur, G.O
Biografiia i Kultura. Russkoe Stsenicheskoe Proiznoshenie

[ Biography and culture. Russian stage articulation : ]
Moscow: Russkie Slovari, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This book, written by the well known Russian philologist G. Vinokur (1896-1947), consists of two his works. The first, Biography and Culture, studies biography as a literary genre and its place in culture.

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Code: 020727
Goncharova-Grabovksaia, S.Ia
Komediia v Russkoi Dramaturgii Kontsa XX - Nachala XXI Veka
Uchebnoe Posobie
[ Comedy in Russian plays in the late XX - early XXI centuries : Teaching aid ]
Moscow: Flinta, Nauka, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 14.00

This teaching aid deals with Russian comedy in the late XX - early XXI centuries, and the variety within this genre. The author analyzes poetics and specific features of the most recent Russian comedies and their evolution.

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Code: 003383
Bol`shev, A.O
Ispovedal`no-Avtobioghraficheskoe Nachalo v Russkoi Proze Vtoroi Poloviny XX Veka

[ Confessional and autobiographical source of Russian prose of the second half of the twentieth : ]
St. Petersburg: Filologich. Fakul`tet S.-Petrburgskogo un-ta, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.50

This monograph is about confessional and autobiographical sources of Russian prose of the second half of the twentieth century. Among the novels included in analysis are: Doktor Zhivago by B. Pasternak, Kolymskie Rasskazy by V.

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Code: 015821
Egorov, O.G
Dnevniki Russkikh Pisatelei XIX Veka: Issledovanie

[ Diaries of Russian writers: Study : ]
Moscow: Flinta, Nauka, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This monograph deals with the writer`s diary as an original genre. The specifics of a diary that it is not created but is kept. The author analyzes the functions, typology, method, and style of literary diaries.

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Code: 008952
Lakhmann, Renata (Lachmann, R.)
Demontazh Krasnorechiia
Ritoricheskaia Traditsiia i Poniatie Poeticheskogo
[ Dismantling eloquence : The Rhetorical tradition and the concept of the poetic ]
St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii Proekt, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This monograph by Renata Lachmann, a professor of the University of Konstanz (Germany), is about Russian literature of the 17th-18th centuries, their rules and canons, Russian and Polish authors of this direction, and the transformation of rhetoric since Antiquity.

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Code: 026045
Belunova, N.I
Elitarnaia Rechevaia Kul`tura i Ee Osnovnye Osobennosti
Na Materiale Druzheskikh Pisem Tvorcheskoi Intelligentsii Kontsa XIX - Pervoi Chetverti XX v.: Uchebnoe Posobie
[ Elite speech culture and its basic qualities: Based on friendly letters of creative intellectuals of the late 19th - first quarter of the 20th centuries : Genre and text of letters ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

This is a teaching aid on elite speech culture of the late 19th - first quarter of the 20th centuries and its basic qualities. Bibliography. Also available on this subject: Todd III, William. Druzheskoe Pis`mo kak Literaturnyi Zhanr (1994).

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Code: 007085-41
Epigramma
Antologiia Satiry i Iumora Rossii XX Veka. Tom 41
[ Epigrams : Anthology of satire and humor of Russia in the 20th century. Volume 41 ]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 23.40

The forty-first volume of the Anthology of Satire and Humor consists of epigrams of the twentieth century. Many very famous Russian poets, artists and writers are presented from a new angle. Comments include information about each author of the collections.

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Code: 028068
Balashova, Iu.B
Evoliutsiia i Poetika Literaturnogo Al`manakha Kak Izdaniia Perekhodnogo Tipa

[ Evolution and the poetics of the literary almanac as a publication of a transitional type : ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterb.un-ta, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 31.00

This monograph studies the evolution of the almanac as a form of publication and literary form from the Middle Ages to our day. The role and function of this type of publication, a transitional form from periodical to non-periodical, from journalism to literature, has changed several times during the last centuries.

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Code: 011262
Belunova, N.I
Druzheskie Pis`ma Tvorcheskoi Intelligentsii Kontsa XIX - Nachala XX Veka
Zhanr i Tekst Pisem
[ Friendly letters of the artistic intelligentsia of the end of the 19th-early 20th centuries : Genre and text of letters ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 15.00

This monograph studies friendly letters as a literary genre, its place in the system of functional styles and specific features. Dialogization, the main feature of this genre, is scrutinized in terms of its main syntax and address characteristics.

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Code: 020091
Esalnek, A.Ia
Osnovy Literaturovedeniia
Analiz Romannogo Teksta: Uchebnoe Posobie
[ Fundamentals of literary criticism : Analysis of the novel text: Textbook ]
Moscow: Flinta, Nauka, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This is a teaching aid to the course on the novel as a genre, its qualities and characteristics. The author illustrates these concepts based on classic Russian novels by F. Dostoevskii, M. Lermontov, N.

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Code: 010911
Venok Russkim Kamenam

[ Garlands to Russian muses : ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1993
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This book is a collection of Russian poetry created in imitation of the ancient Greek and Latin poets. This genre was popular during the Golden and Silver Ages in Russian poetry. Among the authors are Batiushkov, Baratynskii, Apollon Maikov, Bunin, Merezhkovskii, Annenskii, Viach.

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Code: 030674
Bocharov, S.G
Geneticheskaia Pamiat` Literatury

[ Genetic memory in literature : ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This is a collection of articles on the theory of genetic memory in literature along with related subjects literary, philological and partly memoir essays. The author analyze the genetic memory of Russian writers from Pushkin to Bitov.

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