Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Theses and Dissertations
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2024-03-29T15:54:28ZForeignization and Domestication in Translation on the Example of Alice in Wonderland
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Foreignization and Domestication in Translation on the Example of Alice in Wonderland
Kostiuchenko, Mariia
In this thesis I would like to compare the principles of domestication and foreignization in translation using the examples of the Russian translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly just Alice in Wonderland) (1865): Аня в стране чудес (Anya v strane chudes/Anya in Wonderland) by a bilingual Russian and American writer Vladimir Nabokov (1923) and Алиса в стране чудес (Alisa v strane chudes/Alice in Wonderland) by a Soviet translator and English philologist Nina Demurova (1966).If Nabokov’s in his translation was guided by the principle of domestication Nina Demurova, on the contrary, used the principle of foreignization in her work. I would like to make a comparative analysis of these two Russian translations and compare them to original in order to find out if the principles used by the translators made a reasonable difference on Russian translations and if they are conveying the original.
2022-10-04T00:00:00ZMaximilian Voloshin between Spirit and Matter
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Maximilian Voloshin between Spirit and Matter
LEONENKO, ELENA
This thesis considers in tandem the verbal and visual production of the Russian modernist poet and artist Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932), whose work, I argue, was polarized between the spiritual and the material realms. This tension between spirit and matter is manifested in his poetry, prose, and visual works, as well as in his life-creation practices (zhiznetvorchestvo). I contend that Voloshin understood his creative task as being to display the true essence of things by purifying ideas or symbols of their material “layers”, thereby recognizing the otherworldly in physical objects. One of Voloshin’s most crucial concepts is the “Apollonian dream”. He understood this as a source of the transcendental that coexists alongside the tangibility and concreteness of his poems and landscapes and his emphasis on form. This spirit-matter dyad is reflective of the profoundly eclectic nature of Voloshin’s creative corpus which emerged at the intersection of Naturalism, Symbolism, and Acmeism.
2021-09-13T00:00:00ZFrom Aral-Sea to Salt-Soil in Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's "Final Respects". Gender, Kazakh Ecocriticism and the Soviet Modernisation Mirage in the Steppe.
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From Aral-Sea to Salt-Soil in Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's "Final Respects". Gender, Kazakh Ecocriticism and the Soviet Modernisation Mirage in the Steppe.
Zabel, Verena
In my thesis, I am analysing Soviet Kazakh writer Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's novel Final Respects. I argue that Nurpeisov's novel presents both environmentalist criticism and a multivocal description of Soviet Kazakh identity. Nurpeisov's complex social analysis of Kazakh identity is expressed through the narrative style. The narrative structure itself gives voice to multiple points of view through shifting narrative voice(s) and focalisation(s). This reflects the various opinions and worldviews of the Kazakh population, oscillating between traditionality and sovietisation. Neither Soviet influence nor Kazakh identity are depicted as monolithic. Similarly, the novel's ecocriticism and its depiction of women is complex and multifaceted. Women are often essentialised through negative characteristics, but the novel also parallels gender oppression with environmental exploitation. While the juxtaposition of women and nature echoes ecofeminist criticism, the negative essentialisation of women contradicts a direct ecofeminist interpretation.
2021-09-13T00:00:00ZThe Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space
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The Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space
Smith, Kyle
In this thesis I examine how social media and the internet function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere and their potential to facilitate public discourse in the Russian Federation. Using in-depth interviews conducted in Moscow in 2019, I attempt to show how recent political and social circumstances influence such uses by young adults. To understand actually existing uses of these technologies, I contextualize these interviews within facets of post-Soviet life such as media bias, lack of trust in journalistic institutions and politicians, and political apathy. In this sense, this project has the potential to show how agentive uses of social media and the online space function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere within the context of my interlocutors’ lifeworlds.
2020-12-08T00:00:00Z