SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1834518
M. Relich
{"title":"Russian Artists and Patrons","authors":"M. Relich","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1834518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1834518","url":null,"abstract":"Rosalind P. Blakesley’s book works exceptionally well as a detailed and generously well-illustrated catalogue of the exhibition ‘Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky’ at the Nati...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"170 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1834518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1824484
Jan Čulík
{"title":"Czech Culture Wars: Is Milan Kundera ‘a Bastard’?","authors":"Jan Čulík","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1824484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1824484","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Like many countries of the world these days, the Czech Republic is afflicted by intractable culture wars. People obstinately hold on to their ideological positions because they give them power. The world-famous Czech author Milan Kundera, who was a communist until the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, is one of the subjects of such intractable culture wars, currently raging in the Czech Republic. The conflict about Kundera was deepened in June 2020 with the publication of a highly critical, 900-page ‘biography’ of Milan Kundera by another Czech fiction writer, former emigré to the United States Jan Novák. This piece comprises two reviews of Novák’s work, one by a well-know Czech broadcaster and the other by Professor of Czech Literature at Charles University, Prague.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"157 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1824484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45493762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1831159
T. Hubbard
{"title":"Heart and Soul: Dickens and Dostoevsky","authors":"T. Hubbard","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1831159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1831159","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Raskolnikoff himself, a typical Russian, a man of brains maddened by hunger and by the sight of others hungry, is the kind of character Dickens never attempted to portray; his motives, his reasonings, could not be comprehended by an Englishman of the lower middle class.’ (George Gissing, Charles Dickens, 1898) The present study documents both convergences and divergences in the works of Dickens and his admirer Dostoevsky; while many such comparisons have been made by earlier scholars, the field is a rich one and there is much relevant detail that has not been previously rehearsed. Both major and minor works are here elucidated to provide fresh perspectives on this endlessly explorable territory of comparative literary studies.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"89 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1831159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45320217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1763644
J. Wiendl
{"title":"In search of a shared expression: Karel Čapek’s travel writing and imaginative geography of Europe","authors":"J. Wiendl","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1763644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763644","url":null,"abstract":"With the exception of Jiři Opelik, the laureate of Czech scholarship on Karel Capek (cf. Opelik 2008; 2006) and a few journal articles (in particular I would like to highlight works by Petr Malek, ...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43294754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845
Corina Snitar
{"title":"Ambiguous transitions: gender, the state, and everyday life in socialist and postsocialist Romania","authors":"Corina Snitar","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"82 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43800558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1757265
Peter France
{"title":"Edwin Morgan and Russian Poetry","authors":"Peter France","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1757265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1757265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), first poet laureate (makar) of Scotland, was a prolific translator of poetry from about twenty European languages into both Scots and English. Translations from Russian bulk large in his Collected Translations (1996). The most famous of these is Wi the Haill Voice, his vigorous and inventive transposition of Mayakovsky into Scots. This work is examined here, alongside Morgan’s always faithful translations from Pushkin and from two very different younger contemporaries, Voznesensky and Aygi.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"52 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1757265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43067771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1763640
R. Porter
{"title":"The Russian Writers I Have Known or A Slavist’s (Light-Hearted) Testimony","authors":"R. Porter","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1763640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763640","url":null,"abstract":"I have been asked to tell some stories about the Russian writers I have known. In his famous work of 1927 Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster tells us that the essential ingredient of a novel is that...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"64 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46811945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1763643
Z. Varga, Kristína Čimová
{"title":"Reviews in Dialogue","authors":"Z. Varga, Kristína Čimová","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1763643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763643","url":null,"abstract":"‘Aki tot pap letere is magyar iro: Haan Lajos levelei es visszaemlekezesei’[A Slovak Priest Yet a Hungarian Writer: The Letters and Memoirs of Lajos Haan], edited by Jozsef Demmel and Csaba Katona, Bekescsaba-Budapest, MTA, 2017, 417 pp., ISBN: 9786155615696.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"75 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1763643","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42711089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1755142
Aleena Karim
{"title":"Gender and Political Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin’s Eras","authors":"Aleena Karim","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1755142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1755142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while providing the comparative analyses of the gender roles practised in the political eras of Joseph Stalin (1922–1953) and the most recent ruling time period of Vladimir Putin (2012–present). It is further emphasized that gender roles and gender relations are not static but variable in nature. This is because they are further dependent, for their practice, upon the external factors - the variables-classified as the political factors in this research. The reason to select Russia as the case study is the silence it has been observing on the gender platforms across the world. The paper employs Judith Butler’s, the American philosopher and gender theorist, gender perspective, in particular, that one’s gender role cannot be solely defined on the basis of one’s biological characteristics. In fact, gender roles are the relational complexes which are the result of the influence generated by the external factors on one’s individual gender identity. Hence, this research concludes on the point that the changing political eras in Russia serve as the key factor for either a pre-discursive and innate or a contextualized outlook of the gender roles.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"42 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1755142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48531998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}