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Distant Pleasures : Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile
$18.40
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At the very time he was becoming Russia’s first and only national poet, Alexander Pushkin spent nearly six years in exile (1820-26). This book explores the meanings of exile for Pushkin’s changing sense of himself and for his poetic practices. Sent out of Petersburg but confined within Russia’s borders, Pushkin saw both the southern expansion of the empire and the isolation of country life in the North. Exile thus shaped his politics, and because he was separated from his readers and fellow writers, it defined the rhetorical patterns within which he wrote.
The author reads a small but varied group of texts from the years of exile: lyric poems, long narrative poems, the verse novel, Eugene Oregin, and the drama, Boris Godunov. By exploring Pushkin’s representations of distance from his audience, she demonstrates how he created that audience. Rather than narrating Pushkin’s “growth” into greatness, the author develops a theory of reading Pushkin’s shifting conceptions of himself, his work, and his country during the years of exile. His rhetoric of apostrophe, quotation, and figuration is considered carefully in each text. Quoted texts are given in Russian and in English translation.
The analyses range across several methodological and theoretical perspectives: biographical and historical information is frequently brought in, formalist and Bakhtinian frameworks are used for several texts, and the lessons of deconstruction and feminist inquiry are particularly important as Pushkin’s rhetoric of distance and politics of pleasure are read.
Stephanie Sandler was Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College.
Cover illustration courtesy of the Pasternak Trust.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 Stanford University Press edition (ISBN: 0804715424).
LOMO Lubitel 2
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Classic Russian LOMO Lubitel 2 TLR.
LOMO Lubitel 2
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Classic Russian LOMO Lubitel 2 TLR.
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Vera Zasulich : A Biography
$18.31
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This is the first complete biography in any language of the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, who gained worldwide prominence in 1878 by walking into the office of the brutal General Trepov, Governor of St. Petersburg, and shooting him. Acquitted by a sympathetic jury, she escaped to Western Europe, where she became a Marxist and spent the next quarter-century tirelessly preaching the revolutionary cause and trying to keep the peace among Russian socialists and populists. Although she returned to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, she was too ill and discouraged by her failure to unite the various revolutionary factions to remain politically active.
Zasulich embodies many important characteristics of the Russian revolutionaries of her time. Some had their positive side: the disenchantment with autocratic rule that caused the intelligentsia to turn against the state; the peculiarly Russian penchant for carrying ideas to their logical conclusion, as in the shooting of Trepov; the conviction that the affluent and the educated must take the lead in redistributing society’s resources. But there were also, inevitably, the ravages that revolution inflicted on the lives of those who adopted it as a profession: the disillusionment, the broken friendships, the damaged psyches. In 1919, two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, which she condemned, Vera Zasulich died poor and virtually friendless in Petrograd.
Jay Bergman is Assistant Professor of History at Albright College.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Vera Zasulich: a biography
Author Jay Bergman
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1983
ISBN 0804711569, 9780804711562
Length 261 pages
New cover image courtesy of Cherry Bomb Comics, New Zealand (cherrybombcomics.co.nz)
Canoeing the Mountain
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Knucklehead Transfixed
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Portrait of Knucklehead
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Summer Park
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Sikorski S-55/H-19
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Russian beauty in Florence
1st Dance (red)
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My friends wedding...
First dance...
Everybody gathered at the dance floor to capture this beautiful moment.
The light was dim and it was hard to catch a moving couple.
I was standing in a distance trying to capture the light the closeness the movement.
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U-238, Literally Nuclear
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Close up, it's mildly radioactive, but harmless with any distance. The Geiger counter/dosimeter is Russian-made, and indicates about 2 microsieverts per hour at about 2 inches with a plastic barrier, which excludes alpha radiation. Normal background around Fargo (or at least my apartment!) is ~0.40 microsieverts per hour.
Finely divided, uranium is pyrophoric (spontaneously combustible) in air, but stable in macroscopic pieces, kept here in argon gas. Depleted uranium (no U-235) is very hard and dense, making it attractive as ammunition. It shears in a self-sharpening way upon hitting a target, and then bursts into flame and radioactive smoke (which is very dangerous!), making it lovely for wars. (Dark sarcasm.)
In terms of radioactivity, I have rare crystals of the natural mineral uraninite that are far more active (containing daughter products like radium), pegging the dosimeter even at 10X:
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Steven Levin: Russian Girl
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Levin. 1995. Oil painting.
Viktor Vasnetsov: The Flying Carpet
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Vasnetsov. 1880. Oil painting.
Russian household vocabulary stickers
$7.39
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Stick these on the objects in question to learn the words or just for fun. Check out other word stickers.
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