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91	"Singing the Myths of the Nation: Historical Themes in Russian Nineteenth-Century Opera" Alston, Ray S. 13 September 2018 (has links) No description available. History Literature Music Performing Arts Russian History Slavic Literature Russian Historical Opera Northrup Frye Auden Glinka Rimsky-Korsakov Borodin Musorgsky Life for the Tsar Ruslan and Liudmila Ruslan and Lyudmila Prince Igor Maid of Pskov Pskovitianka Tsars Bride Khovanshchina Boris Godunov
92	Tropes of Alterity in Soviet and Polish Science Fiction (1957-1992) Tereshchenko, Serhii January 2023 (has links) This dissertation examines Soviet and Polish science fiction from the 1960s to 1980s as a political genre that investigates power and society. The problem of alterity is central for this genre: it is ungovernable because it is incomprehensible. Science fiction of this kind explores the possibilities and impossibilities of living with the Other that can impact social organization dramatically and lethally while that Other cannot be impacted in return. Living peacefully with such alterity is the fundamental premise of pluralism as a principle of social organization, according to the conclusions of the study. The dissertation explores alterity in science fiction by Ivan Efremov (1908–1972), Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1925–1991 and 1933–2012), Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), and Volodymyr Savchenko (1933–2005). My goal is to reveal in their works a transformative epistemological shift that had manifested itself through the tropes of alterity. Among these tropes the dissertation highlights aliens and alien civilizations, artificial intelligence, anisotropic universe, distant planets endowed with unique natural attributes, the more abstract unknown, and non-human elements running out-of-control within human species. I also examine specifically science-fictional notions such as the bull and progressor, which represent the intelligentsia’s relations with power and the masses. The analyzed literary worlds also represent their authors’ views of alternative societal organization, ruled by the powerful alterity such as a mega-computer or alien super-intelligence. Another important trope of alterity is based upon a simultaneous performance of contradictory competing logics that create an effect known as parallax: the reader may interpret the same characters and/or stories in multiple, mutually incompatible, ways. Beyond avoiding censorship, these tropes set the stage for the authors’ utopias, in which the Other appears as an impenetrable alterity that affects those who encounter it. For these writers, alterity serves as the tool for problematizing progress, as it was imagined after World War II by the majority of political elites under socialism and in the West. I suggest that their science fiction contributed, among many other factors, to the lexicon and the imaginary of a cohort of political dissidents and Communist Party functionaries alike who translated science-fictional themes into political science terms to shape Perestroika’s discourse. The dissertation, thus, establishes a historical connection between Soviet and Polish science fiction of the post-Stalin period and the ways in which democracy was discursively constructed in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and other former socialist nations. Science fiction Soviet literature Russian literature Polish literature Slavic literature Twentieth century Artificial intelligence in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature Utopias in literature Efremov, Ivan Antonovich, 1907-1972 Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Arkadiĭ, 1925-1991 Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Boris, 1933-2012 Lem, Stanisław
93	Constructing the Russian Moral Project through the Classics: Reflections of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, 1833-2014 Erken, Emily Alane January 2015 (has links) No description available. Communication Cultural Anthropology Dance Gender Studies Literature Music Performing Arts Philosophy Russian History Slavic Literature Slavic Studies Theater Theater Studies Theater History Womens Studies
94	Fall Like a Man North, Naomi 20 April 2016 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics Bible Bilingual Education Dance Earth Ecology East European Studies Energy English As A Second Language Environmental Philosophy Ethics Ethnic Studies European History Families and Family Life Fine Arts Folklore Foreign Language Forestry Gender History Holocaust Studies Human Remains Language Language Arts Literacy Literature Minority and Ethnic Groups Modern History Modern Language Modern Literature Multilingual Education Multicultural Education Peace Studies Performing Arts Personal Relationships Personality Regional Studies Religion Religious History Slavic Literature Slavic Studies Spirituality Theology Therapy Womens Studies World History poetry poems Polish Poland death grief ethnic identity nature bilingual poetry elegy patriarch loss contemporary poetry solidarity movement emigration immigration third-generation immigrant Wigrance Pittsburgh working-class poetry

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