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Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis (review) 盎格鲁-诺曼文本中的动物音景》，作者 Liam Lewis（评论）

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916747

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Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading by Nora C. Benedict (review) 博尔赫斯与文学市场：诺拉-本尼迪克特（Nora C. Benedict）所著的《编辑实践如何塑造世界性阅读》（评论

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916754

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Voyage et aventures en deux îles désertes des Indes orientales by François Leguat (review) 弗朗索瓦-勒盖特所著的《东方印度两个荒岛上的旅行与探险》（评论）

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916746

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Self-Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel by Margarita Vaysman (review) 自觉的现实主义：玛格丽塔-维斯曼著《元小说与十九世纪俄罗斯小说》（评论）

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916758

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Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti by Lin Li (review) 萨缪尔-贝克特和阿尔贝托-贾科梅蒂笔下的残留形象》，作者 Lin Li（评论）

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916736

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'Sing me a lullaby': Tenderness and Trans Mothers in the Work of Camila Sosa Villada 为我唱摇篮曲卡米拉-索萨-比利亚达作品中的温柔与变性母亲

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916730

Ben Bollig

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'Nous aimons les spectacles exotiques': Queerness, Jewishness, and the Performance of Normality in Proust's Recherche Nous aimons les spectacles exotiques》：普鲁斯特《追寻》中的同性恋、犹太情结和常态表现

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2024.a916728

Eli Zuzovsky

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Russia's Cultural Statecraft ed. by Tuomas Firsberg and Sirke Mäkinen (review) 《俄罗斯的文化治国之道》，托马斯·弗尔斯伯格和西尔克主编Mäkinen(评论)

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2023.a907878

{"title":"Russia's Cultural Statecraft ed. by Tuomas Firsberg and Sirke Mäkinen (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907878","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Russia's Cultural Statecraft ed. by Tuomas Firsberg and Sirke Mäkinen Muireann Maguire Russia's Cultural Statecraft. Ed. by Tuomas Firsberg and Sirke Mäkinen. (Studies in Contemporary Russia) Routledge: New York and Abingdon. 2022. £29.95. xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 978–0–367–69436–4. This timely, wide-ranging collection surveys Russian cultural influence in the twenty-first century. In their Introduction, co-editors Tuomas Firsberg and Sirke Mäkinen argue plausibly that Joseph Nye's distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' power is ambiguous and over-used, since 'power' is not necessarily achieved by cultural influence; another common term, 'cultural diplomacy' (as used in another recent edited volume, Louise Hardiman's Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy: Art, Material Culture, and British-Russian Relations (Paderborn: Brill, 2023)), is confusingly adjacent to high-level ambassadorial exchanges. Therefore Firsberg and Mäkinen propose 'cultural statecraft' as an alternative term for cultural activity undertaken to further a given state's reputation or interests, without any guaranteed goal or outcome. The latter clarification is necessary because, as this volume testifies, there are few cultural fields or political zones where Russian cultural statecraft has in fact attained lasting success (with the possible exception of participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, which Mari Pajala and Dean Vuletic, in their chapter, call 'Russia's biggest success story in popular music as cultural diplomacy' (p. 179)). Even in regions where Russian aesthetic and educational opportunities were once eagerly accepted by students and other consumers, such as Africa, India, and Latin America, this influence has waned drastically since the fall of the Soviet Union. As statistics presented by Sirke Mäkinen in her separate essay 'Higher Education as a Tool for Cultural Statecraft' show, more than half of the international students attending Russian universities are citizens of former Soviet nations: student recruitment from Africa and the Middle East has plunged to single percentage points, while European and North American recruitment is fractional. This is because Russia's academic and scientific reputation no longer outweighs its widespread (and objectively accurate) perception as corrupt, inefficient, and monolingual. Under Vladimir Putin, the Russian state has actively attempted to recapture global hearts and minds through new (often hybridized) processes. In the new global knowledge hierarchy, the ability to sow misinformation—through, for example, the Kremlin's infamous troll farms—is more effective than teaching Tolstoy to farmers in Timbuktu could ever be. Firsberg and Mäkinen's Introduction examines key milestones in this transformation: the launch of the Russia Today (RT) television news channel in 2005; the creation of the Russkii Mir Foundation, dedicated to sponsoring Russian language-learning and Russophone culture across the globe, in 2007; Putin'","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (review) 《他人之血:斯大林的克里米亚暴行与团结的诗学》罗里·芬宁著(书评)

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2023.a907875

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British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850–1914 by Jane Suzanne Carroll (review) 《英国儿童文学与物质文化:1850-1914年的商品与消费》作者:简·苏珊娜·卡罗尔

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MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2023.a907859

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