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All the Same The Words Don't Go Away : Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition /

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All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emerson, Caryl (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Bethea, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]
Series:Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Subjects:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Russian literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Littérature russe > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Great Art Should Slow Us Down: "Participative Th inking" in the World and as the World of Caryl Emerson / Bethea, David
  • I N MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (Dialogue, Carnival, the Bakhtin Wars)
  • 1. Polyphony and the Carnivalesque: Introducing the Terms
  • 2. The Early Philosophical Essays
  • 3. Coming to Terms with Carnival
  • 4. Gasparov and Bakhtin
  • II ON THE MASTER WORKERS
  • 5. Four Pushkin Biographies
  • 6. Pushkin's Tatiana
  • 7. Pushkin's Boris Godunov
  • 8. George Steiner on Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
  • 9. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on Evil-Doing
  • 10. Kundera on Not Liking Dostoevsky
  • 11. Parini on Tolstoy, with a Postscript on Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and the Performing Arts
  • 12. Chekhov and the Annas
  • III MUSICALIZING THE LITERARY CLASSIC (Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev)
  • 13. Foreword to Richard Taruskin's Essays on Musorgsky
  • 14. From "Boris Godunov" to "Khovanshchina"
  • 15. Tumanov on Maria Olenina-d'Alheim
  • 16. Tchaikovsky's Tatiana
  • 17. Little Operas to Pushkin's Little Tragedies
  • 18. Playbill to Prokofi ev's "War and Peace" at the Met
  • 19. Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"
  • 20. Princeton University's Boris Godunov
  • 21. "Eugene Onegin" on the Stalinist Stage
  • In Conclusion
  • Index