This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Ril
Connolly (Slavic languages and literatures, U. of Virginia) explores representations of demons and devils in 19th-century Russian literature. He begins with a discussion of the demonic in early Russia
The characters in Dostoevsky's The Devils tend to see the protagonist Stavrogin as a savior figure. But Anderson, a scholar/ librarian at Yale University, maintains that Stavrogin is in fact an antich
Taking Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's (1809-52) Arabesques as a necessarily idiosyncratic example of Romantic metaphysics in action, Frazier (Slavic language and literature, Sarah Lawrence College) lo
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853-1921) was a popular short fiction writer in pre-revolutionary Russian until overshadowed by his contemporary Anton Checkov. Balasubramanian (modern languages, U
