1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778431303321

Titolo

Critical theory in Russia and the West / / edited by Alastair Renfrew and Galin Tihanov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-25495-8

1-135-25496-6

1-282-37745-0

9786612377457

0-203-86964-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 60

Altri autori (Persone)

RenfrewAlastair

TikhanovGalin

Disciplina

197

801.950947

801/.950947

Soggetti

Criticism - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

Criticism - Soviet Union - History

Criticism - History - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The resurrection of a poetics; 2 Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bakhtin on art and immortality; 3 Innovation and regression: Gustav Shpet's theoretical concerns in the 1920s; 4 'Once out of nature': The organic metaphor in Russian (and other) theories of language; 5 Roman Jakobson and philology; 6 The poetics and politics of estrangement: Viktor Shklovsky and Hannah Arendt; 7 The shaved man's burden: The Russian novel as a romance of internal colonisation

8 Feminism, untranslated: Russian gender studies and cross-cultural transfer in the 1990s and beyond9 From post- to proto-: Bakhtin and the future of the humanities; 10 Beyond the text; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the



1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia, is increasingly challenged today. With the gradual retreat in recent years of theory from the high ground of the Western humanities, new work has emerged to suggest unexpected parallels and to undermine others.This book, with contributions from some of the most visible s

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816971703321

Autore

Archer Gregory

Titolo

Private Heller and the Bantam Boys : an American medic in World War I / / Gregory Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4930-1737-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

940.481

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Medical care - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Based on the combat diary of Private Ralph H. Heller, US Army Ambulance Corps (1917-1919)."

Nota di contenuto

_GoBack; Contents; Prologue: The Guns of June; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Providence; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Index; About the Author