Works and Criticism

This section examines specific literary works in a critical light. It also includes several academic works that examine literary history and/or the cultural significance of specific literature.

April 23, 2014

Accessible Art and Dialectic Potential: The Soviet Legacy in the Art community of Kyrgyzstan

”In the artistic world, Central Asian artists are still listed as “Others.” Ulan Djaparov, exhibition notes for “…and Others,” 2004. Within the last three decades, the international art system has seen the inclusion of contemporary art from regions of the world, which once seemed remote. The newest region to enter the international art system is […]

Кем Быть: Whom Shall I Be: Children’s Literature; A Reflection on the Uncertainties of the Early Soviet Pedagogical Experimentation

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Works and Criticism

Accessible Art and Dialectic Potential: The Soviet Legacy in the Art community of Kyrgyzstan

Competing Conceptions of the Good Life in Anna Karenina

The Paradoxes of Vladimir Mayakovsky

The Control of Semantic Space: Bulgakov’s Challenge of the Stalinist Vision

How and Why Did the Focus of Samizdat Shift Following the End of the Khrushchev Thaw?

Rational Perversions of Love in The Brothers Karamazov: Spiritually Fruitless, yet Thematically Useful

Dostoevsky’s The Meek One: A Rebellious Reading

Dueling as a Commentary on Gambling and Risk Taking

Кем Быть: Whom Shall I Be: Children’s Literature; A Reflection on the Uncertainties of the Early Soviet Pedagogical Experimentation