All the same the words don't go away : essays on authors, heroes, aesthetics, and stage adaptations from the Russian tradition

All the same the words don't go away essays on authors, heroes, aesthetics, and stage adaptations from the Russian tradition

All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emerson, Caryl (-)
Other Authors: Bethea, David (contributor), Bethea, David, contributor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press 2011.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Subjects:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Russian literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433083706719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Great Art Should Slow Us Down: "Participative Th inking" in the World and as the World of Caryl Emerson / Bethea, David
  • I N MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (Dialogue, Carnival, the Bakhtin Wars)
  • 1. Polyphony and the Carnivalesque: Introducing the Terms
  • 2. The Early Philosophical Essays
  • 3. Coming to Terms with Carnival
  • 4. Gasparov and Bakhtin
  • II ON THE MASTER WORKERS
  • 5. Four Pushkin Biographies
  • 6. Pushkin's Tatiana
  • 7. Pushkin's Boris Godunov
  • 8. George Steiner on Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
  • 9. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on Evil-Doing
  • 10. Kundera on Not Liking Dostoevsky
  • 11. Parini on Tolstoy, with a Postscript on Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and the Performing Arts
  • 12. Chekhov and the Annas
  • III MUSICALIZING THE LITERARY CLASSIC (Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev)
  • 13. Foreword to Richard Taruskin's Essays on Musorgsky
  • 14. From "Boris Godunov" to "Khovanshchina"
  • 15. Tumanov on Maria Olenina-d'Alheim
  • 16. Tchaikovsky's Tatiana
  • 17. Little Operas to Pushkin's Little Tragedies
  • 18. Playbill to Prokofi ev's "War and Peace" at the Met
  • 19. Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"
  • 20. Princeton University's Boris Godunov
  • 21. "Eugene Onegin" on the Stalinist Stage
  • In Conclusion
  • Index

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