Literary Studies and Criticism

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Updated November 16, 2024
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus
Paper Book
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance...
Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Deborah Martinsen
Paper Book
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment...
Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union
Marijeta Bozovic
Paper Book
The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin's regime and Western liberalism. What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian...

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