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  • Life Is Elsewhere

    Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917

    by Anne Lounsbery ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In Life Is Elsewhere**, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow.** Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it ... Read more

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  • World Literature in the Soviet Union

    Edited by Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery, Rossen Djagalov ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
    This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a ... Read more

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  • What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

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    Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

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