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. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres or media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, that gov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Emerson, Caryl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Colección:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Temas:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Russian literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Littérature russe > Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: general
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
DRAMA > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Caryl Emerson
  • Great art should slow us down : “participative thinking” in the world and as the world of Caryl Emerson / David Bethea
  • I. On Mikhail Bakhtin : (Dialogue, Carnival, the Bakhtin Wars)
  • Polyphony and the carnivalesque : introducing the terms
  • The early philosophical essays
  • Coming to terms with Carnival
  • Gasparov and Bakhtin
  • II. On the master workers : (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy)
  • Four Pushkin biographies
  • Pushkin’s Tatiana
  • Pushkin’s Boris Godunov
  • George Steiner on Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
  • Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on evil-doing
  • Kundera on not liking Dostoevsky
  • Parini on Tolstoy, with a postscript on Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and the performing arts
  • Chekhov and the Annas
  • III. Musicalizing the literary classics : (Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev)
  • Foreword to Richard Taruskin’s Essays on Musorgsky – From “Boris Godunov” to “Khovanshchina”
  • Tumanov on Maria Olenina-D’Alheim
  • Tchaikovsky’s Tatiana
  • Little operas to Pushkin’s little tragedies
  • Playbill to Prokofiev’s “War and peace” at the Met – Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” – Princeton University’s Boris Godunov – ”Eugene Onegin” on the Stalinist stage
  • In conclusion.

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