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Studies in Russian and Slavic ...Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov s Pale Fire has a classical unity ... Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov s Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot s philosophical position particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot s later tendency for conservatism in... more
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Studies in Russian and Slavic ...Written at the height of Stalin s first five-year plan for the industrializati... Written at the height of Stalin s first five-year plan for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture Andrei Platonov s The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and... more
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Studies in Russian and Slavic ...One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century ... One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Reader s Guide to Nabokov s Lolita... more
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Studies in Russian and Slavic ...The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Ann... The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work moreover he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. In Browning s study the... more
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