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.

June 17, 2005

Boris Pasternak as an Embodiment of Art’s Nonconformist Nature

Book Review: Lazar Fleishman, Boris Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics (London, England; 1990) 359 pages In Boris Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics, Lazar Fleishman provides his reader with an in-depth look at the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak, beginning with his origins as a child musician and concluding with his receipt, and rejection of, the Nobel […]

Works and Criticism

Boris Pasternak as an Embodiment of Art’s Nonconformist Nature

Blood Imagery in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Similarities between Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov

The Strange Enforcement of Socialist Realism: Soviet Theater 1917-1960 [Excerpt]

‘What is Comedy Without Truth and Fury?’: The Government Inspector in Text and Presentation 1836 – 1938