All the Same The Words Don't Go Away : Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition.

Twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres of media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, that govern the transposer, audience, and critic. The practice of...

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Main Author:	Emerson, Caryl
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Russian literature > History and criticism. Russian literature > Adaptations > History and criticism. Literary Criticism > Russian & Former Soviet Union. Russian literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Intro
CONTENTS
PREFACE
GREAT ART SHOULD SLOW US DOWN: "PARTICIPATIVE THINKING" IN THE WORLD AND AS THE WORLD OF CARYL EMERSON David Bethea
1 POLYPHONY AND THE CARNIVALESQUE: INTRODUCING THE TERMS
2 THE EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
3 COMING TO TERMS WITH CARNIVAL
4 GASPAROV AND BAKHTIN
5 FOUR PUSHKIN BIOGRAPHIES
6 PUSHKIN'S TATIANA
7 PUSHKIN'S BORIS GODUNOV
8 GEORGE STEINER ON TOLSTOY OR DOSTOEVSKY
9 TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY ON EVIL DOING
10 KUNDERA ON NOT LIKING DOSTOEVSKY
11 PARINI ON TOLSTOY, WITH A POSTSCRIPT ON TOLSTOY, SHAKESPEARE, AND THE PERFORMING ARTS
12 CHEKHOV AND THE ANNAS
13 FOREWORD TO RICHARD TARUSKIN'S ESSAYS ON MUSORGSKY
14 FROM "BORIS GODUNOV" TO "KHOVANSHCHINA"
15 TUMANOV ON MARIA OLENINA D'ALHEIM
16 TCHAIKOVSKY'S TATIANA
17 LITTLE OPERAS TO PUSHKIN'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES
18 PLAYBILL TO PROKOFIEV'S "WAR AND PEACE" AT THE MET
19 SHOSTAKOVICH'S "LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK"
20 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S BORIS GODUNOV
21 "EUGENE ONEGIN" ON THE STALINIST STAGE
IN CONCLUSION
INDEX.

All the Same The Words Don't Go Away : Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition.

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