Russian: Recent submissions
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The temptation of the reader : the search for meaning in Boris Akunin's Pelagia Trilogy
(2016-01-01) - Journal articleThis article discusses the games that Boris Akunin's Pelagia trilogy (2000–03) plays with the reader's attempts at interpretation and meaning-making. Most critics agree that detective fiction in this ‘whodunnit’ mode is a ... -
Between two worlds : the fairy-tale novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisBetween Two Worlds: The Fairy-Tale Novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman is a thesis devoted to four of the author’s novels published during the 1830s and 1840s: Koshchei bessmertnyi (1833), Svetoslavich, vrazhii pitomets ... -
The Letter of the law : literacy and orality in S. A. Panov's Murder in Medveditsa Village
(2011-01) - Journal articleThis article takes as its subject a nineteenth-century detective story: S.A. Panov’s Murder in Medveditsa Village (1872). Panov’s work is remarkable amongst its contemporaries for the way in which it interrogates the ... -
The work of Aleksandr Grin (1880-1932) : a study of Grin's philosophical outlook
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisThere has been to date no attempt at a detailed examination of Aleksandr Grin’s philosophical views interpreted on the basis of his literary work. Whilst some critics have noted interesting links between the writer’s ... -
'Post-Soviet neo-modernism' : an approach to 'postmodernism' and humour in the post-Soviet Russian fiction of Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-23) - ThesisThe present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, ...