Literary Studies and Criticism

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Updated January 11, 2025
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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...
Mimesis: The Literature of the Soviet Avant-garde
Valery Podoroga
Paper Book
The politics of literature in the construction of worlds The Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how...

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