1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788310903321

Autore

Rosenshield Gary

Titolo

Challenging the bard [[electronic resource] ] : Dostoevsky and Pushkin, a study of literary relationship / / Gary Rosenshield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013

ISBN

0-299-29353-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Disciplina

891.71/3

Soggetti

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Before Exile ""; ""Chapter 1. The First Confrontation: Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"""; ""Chapter 2. The Bronze Horseman and The Double: Reevaluating the Madness of the Common Man""; ""Chapter 3. The Miser Redone: The Transformation of Pushkin's The Covetous Knight in Dostoevsky's Mr. Prokharchin""; ""Part Two: After Exile""; ""Chapter Four: Gambling and Passion: Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Dostoevsky's The Gambler""

""Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment 1."The Stationmaster," The Bronze Horseman, and The Queen of Spades: The Clerk, Petersburg, and Napoleon""""Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment 2.The Covetous Knight: Power, Transgression, and Legacy""; ""Chapter 7: After Crime and Punishment: An Afterword on the Later Novels ""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827884503321

Autore

White Ethan

Titolo

Wicca : history, belief, and community in modern pagan witchcraft / / Ethan Doyle White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-78284-255-1

1-78284-253-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

299/.94

Soggetti

Wicca

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The craft of the pagan witches -- Wiccan history -- Origins and inspiration -- Gerald gardner -- Gardner's rivals -- Wicca in the usa -- Feminism, gay lib, and the eco-warriors -- The charmed generation -- Belief and praxes -- Wicca as witchcraft -- Wiccan theology -- The coven and the solitary -- Magic and morality -- Wiccan ritual -- The wheel of the year -- Birth, death, and afterlife -- Wiccan life -- Converting to the craft -- The Wiccan community -- Wiccan culture.