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  • Akram Aylisli, Village Prose, World Literature 
    Orte, Peter (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
    This thesis takes Akram Aylisli’s Farewell, Aylis as an occasion to dwell on World Literature. Tracing Aylisli’s development as a Soviet writer of Azerbaijani “village prose,” I follow the displacements of the village ...
  • Beyond the Feminine in Pushkin's Tatiana 
    Spreat, Eric (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
    Pushkin's Tatiana tends to be pigeonholed by criticism that acknowledges her dynamism and openness to creative possibilities but restricts her intertextual significance to the heroines of the European novelists she herself ...
  • From Prophecy to Parody: Shamakha in the Russian Romantic Imagination 
    Jalilov, Murad (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
    This thesis seeks to explore the role of the Azerbaijani city of Shamakha and the image of its ruler, the Shamakhan Queen in Pavel Katenin’s "Kniazna Milusha" and Alexander Pushkin’s "Skazka o Zolotom Petushke". In order ...
  • Narrating the National Future: The Cossacks in Ukrainian and Russian Literature 
    Kovalchuk, Anna (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
    This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century narrative representations of the Cossacks—multi-ethnic warrior communities from the historical borderlands of empire, known for military strength, pillage, and revelry—as ...
  • The Petersburg Text in Russian Literature of the 1990s 
    Smirnova, Daria (University of Oregon, 2012)
    The image of Saint Petersburg has influenced the imagination of Russian writers since the establishment of this city in 1703. Today, it is common to speak about the Petersburg Text in Russian literature that has its own ...
  • Poetics of Lev Tolstoy's Kholstomer 
    Forehand, Paul (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
    This thesis contains an analysis of the ways in which form and content are combined to create significance within a text, as well as an exploration of the ways in which the mechanics of didactic fiction convey this ...
  • The Representation of the Soviet Past by Contemporary Russian Writers 
    Nekrasova, Alena (University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)
    The Soviet Union had existed for 70 years and was labeled as the "evil empire". Its technological achievements and geographical discoveries are amazing. However, its dark aspects such as censorship, "purges", and freedom ...
  • The Eye in Lermontov’s "A Hero of Our Time": Perception, Visuality, and Gender Relations 
    Zagoruyko, Iryna (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
    This thesis views Lermontov’s novel "A Hero of Our Time" as centered on images, glances and vision. In his text Lermontov conveys a persistent fascination with visual perception. The attentive reader can read this language ...
  • The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and the Principle of the Dominant 
    Osadchuk, Svetlana (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
    THESIS ABSTRACT Svetlana R. Osadchuk Master of Arts
 Russian, and East European, and Eurasian Studies Program
 June 2018
 Title: The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and The Principle of The Dominant Russian ...
  • "To Rasshcheplennoe Iadro": From Lucretian Swerve to Sundered Core in Shalamov’s Atomnaia poema 
    Larson, Kirstin (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
    Varlam Shalamov's Atomnaia poema addresses a primordial "wish to split" at the core of nature and within the human heart. This wish to split is informed by Shalamov's Gulag experience as well as his reflections on Auschwitz ...
  • Truth Disguised as Lies: How Aesop's Life Shaped Russian Aesopian Literature (1884-1984) 
    Larson, K. (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
    My dissertation examines the origins of so-called “Aesopian,” or covertly subversive, narratives. While scholars have focused on fables as prototypes for these narratives, my project addresses the role played by the Vita ...

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