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russian literature --- russian culture --- literary translation --- literary theory --- russian art --- russian philosophy

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In 2014, when the Russian-Latvian radio talk-show host Aleks Dubas started asking his celebrity guests to describe a personal “moment of happiness” in their lives, the results were unexpectedly frank and exhilarating. Soon the project expanded to include submissions from 2 million listeners. This book holds a collection of dozens of mini-stories about human joy, ranging from diver’s first beholding of the underwater world, to a mother’s revelation in sign language, to a Russian rock star’s rousing concert in Ukraine. As Aleks puts it, “this book is a distillation – and a catalyst – of intense happiness.”

Russia. --- Russian culture. --- Russophone world. --- happiness. --- humor. --- inspiration. --- joy. --- personal growth. --- popular culture. --- short essays. --- social science.

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This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky's oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches. Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the Great, literary theory, and Russian film. The articles are rooted in computational analysis, literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural history, and a host of other methodological and discursive modes. This collection provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the most fascinating figures of Russian letters but also a remarkable picture of the shape of Russian literary scholarship today.

Russian literature --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Zholkovskiĭ, A. K. --- Жолковский, А. К. --- Жолковский, Александр Константинович --- Zholkovskiĭ, Aleksandr Konstantinovich --- Zholkovsky, Alexander K. --- Zholkovskij, A. K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Avant-Garde. --- Modernism. --- Poetics. --- Russian culture. --- Russian literature. --- Structuralism.

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One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of reform to the mature masterpieces of Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the paintings of the Wanderers, Repin chief among them. By examining the classics of the tradition, Brunson explores the emergence of multiple realisms from the gaps, disruptions, and doubts that accompany the self-conscious project of representing reality. These manifestations of realism are united not by how they look or what they describe, but by their shared awareness of the fraught yet critical task of representation. By tracing the engagement of literature and painting with aesthetic debates on the sister arts, Brunson argues for a conceptualization of realism that transcends artistic media. Russian Realisms integrates the lesser-known tradition of Russian painting with the familiar masterpieces of Russia's great novelists, highlighting both the common ground in their struggles for artistic realism and their cultural autonomy and legitimacy. This erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history, and nineteenth-century realist movements.

Drawing --- Painting --- Russian literature --- Realist [modern European fine arts styles] --- drawings [visual works] --- Russian [culture or style] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Russian Federation --- Russia --- literatuur --- realisme --- Dostojewski, Fjodor --- Repin, Ilja --- Tolstoy, Lev --- 1840 - 1890 --- 19de eeuw --- Rusland --- literatuur. --- realisme. --- Tolstoy, Lev. --- Repin, Ilja. --- Dostojewski, Fjodor. --- 1840 - 1890. --- 19de eeuw. --- Rusland. --- Aesthetics, Russian --- Realism in art --- Realism in literature. --- Painting, Russian --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Lev Tolstoy, Ilya Repin, Fyofor Dostoevsky, paintings of the Wanderers, the Natural School, Russia's great novelists. --- veilingen. --- Rafaël. --- van Ostade, Adriaen. --- Gérôme, Jean-Léon. --- Millet, Jean-François. --- Van Gogh, Vincent. --- Brancusi, Constantin. --- Cassatt, Mary. --- Kooning, Willem de. --- Von Guérard, Eugene. --- Johns, Jasper.

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The early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations, from the late Soviet directors through post-Soviet and New Russian filmmakers to the Russian millennials, have worked in varying visual styles and with diverse narrative strategies, while searching for a new cinematic language. Financing and distribution models have evolved, along with conservative politics driving Ministry of Culture regulation. This reader is intended both for contemporary Russian cinema courses and for modern Russian culture courses that emphasize film. It does not attempt to establish a canon for the period but seeks to provide undergraduate students with an introduction to significant Russian films released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available with English subtitles. The twenty-one essays on individual films provide background information on directors' careers, detailed analyses of selected films, along with suggested further readings both in English and Russian.

Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History --- History and criticism --- Aleksandr Mindadze. --- Aleksandr Sokurov. --- Aleksandr Zel'dovich. --- Aleksei Balabanov. --- Aleksei Fedorchenko. --- Aleksei German. --- Andrei Konchalovsky. --- Andrei Proshkin. --- Andrei Zviagintsev. --- Anna Melikian. --- Cargo 200. --- Contemporary Russian Culture. --- Contemporary Russian film. --- Dead Man's Bluff. --- Elena. --- Hard to be a God. --- Hipsters. --- Legend Number 17. --- Leviathan. --- Mermaid. --- Mikhail Segal. --- My Good Hans. --- My Joy. --- Nikolai Lebedev. --- Paradise. --- Post-Soviet film. --- Russian cinema. --- Sergei Loznitsa. --- Short Stories. --- Silent Souls. --- The Horde. --- The Land of Oz. --- The Sun. --- The Target. --- Valery Todorovsky. --- Vasily Sigarev. --- cinema. --- film. --- Motion pictures. --- 2000-2099. --- Russia (Federation).