Archetypes in Literatures and Cultures — Cultural and Regional Studies

Given the dynamic nature of borders and cultures, it is no wonder that lines are becoming blurred between this country's cultural heritage and that. The authors of this collection of twenty-one essays investigate the borders between an original text, influences, and plagiarism. Their topics include national and transnational influences, source or interpretation, similarities between Azerbaijani and Greek epics, European folksong texts as carriers of poetic archetypes, fears and hopes after post-totalitarian regimes, renditions of Rumi in Europe and North America, Lermontov's "Ashik-Kerib" as a cross-cultural example, desiring the oriental "other" in the Persian poems of Klebnikov, Hamlet and Iskandar on personal identity, Faustus as an archetype, the archetype of the Russian man in Dostoyevsky, the archetype of poets, wise old men, translation, phraseological units in languages, Dostoyevsky's archetype of the underground man, the mill, celestial bodies, Turkic culture, Medea as an artistic personification of opposites, results of Nikolay and Lev Gumilyov, moving from the city as a factory to the city as a source of consumer goods, and the strange case of the number four in architecture. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rahilya Geybullayeva is Professor and Head of the Department of Azerbaijani Literature at Baku Slavic University. She holds a PhD from Moscow State University, served as Visiting Professor as Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, as UNESCO Scholar at the University of London and as Carnegie Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.