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.

December 12, 2005

The Lay of Igor’s Campaign and the Works It Has Inspired

In A.D. 1185, as the Kievan Rus Empire was starting to deteriorate, a little known prince on the eastern Russian borders led his outnumbered men into battle against Mongolian invaders, the Polovtsians (Kumans). This battle and its aftermath would become the topic of the Russian literary epic, “The Lay of Igor’s Campaign.” Its conclusion was […]

Works and Criticism

The Lay of Igor’s Campaign and the Works It Has Inspired

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