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Title

An Anthology of Russian women's writing, 1777-1992 / edited by Catriona Kelly ; translated by Catriona Kelly [and others].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Kelly, Catriona.

Description

xxv, 535 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This is the first systematic historical anthology of Russian women's writing to appear in any language.
• At a time of growing interest both in the West and in Russia itself, the Anthology provides a radically new sense of the dynamic development of Russian women's writing - poetry, prose, and drama - over the last 200 years. Including important texts by well-known writers such as Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Elena Shvarts, and Olga Sedakova, the Anthology also introduces outstanding works by lesser-known writers such as Sofya Soboleva, Olga Shapir, Mariya Shkapskaya, Anna Barkova, and Vera Merkureva.
• All translations have been commissioned for this volume and poetry is presented in the original Russian as well as in English. A companion volume to Catriona Kelly's History of Russian Women's Writing, 1820-1992 (also available from OUP), this is an indispensable source for readers and students of women's writing, and for all those concerned with women's history, the history of feminism, and Russian literature in general.

Subject

Russian literature > Women authors > Translations into English

Note

• Includes index.
• Poetry, prose, and drama; poetry is in original Russian and English translation.

Contents

• Ekaterina Urosova -- Invocation, from Heroides, Dedicated to the Muses (poem, 1777) -- Anna Bunina -- 'Though poverty's no stain' (poem, 1813) -- Conversation between Me and the Women (poem, 1818) -- Elisaveta Kulman -- To Diana (poem, before 1824) -- Zinaida Volkonskaya -- The Dream: A Letter (story, 1829) -- Evdokiya Rostopchina -- The Unfinished Sewing (poem, 1839) -- Karolina Pavlova -- The Crone (ballad, 1840) -- 'Life calls us' (elegy, 1846) -- At the Tea-Table (story, 1859) -- Sofya Soboleva -- Pros and Cons (story, 1863) -- Elizaveta Shakhova -- Autobiographical Response from a Provincial Wasteland (poem, c.1865) -- Olga Shapir -- The Settlement (story, 1892) -- Valentina Dmitrieva -- After the Great Hunger (extract from 'Round the Villages: A Doctor's Memoir of an Epidemic', 1896) -- Zinaida Gippius -- The Seamstress (poem, 1901) -- The Wedding Ring (poem, 1905) -- Incantation (poem, 1905) -- Anastasiya Mirovich -- Lizards (prose poem, 1902) -- Elsa (prose poem, 1902) -- N. Teffi.
• The Woman Question (one-act play, 1908) -- Walled up (story, 1910) -- Adelaida Gertsyk -- Spring (poem, 1907/1910) -- 'Silent, draped in the garments' (poem, 1910) -- My Loves (essay, 1913) -- Anna Akhmatova -- 'Sister, I have come to take your place' (poem, 1912) -- Solitude (poem, 1914) -- 'Fear turns objects over' (poem, 1921) -- Memories of Aleksandr Blok (essay, 1965) -- Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva -- Long-Barrow Princess, ii (poem, 1912) -- Ruth (poem, 1916) -- Vera Merkureva -- The Grandmother of Russian Poetry (poem, 1918) -- Mariya Shkapskaya -- No Dream (narrative poem, 1919) -- Olga Forsh -- The Substitute Lecturer (one-act play, 1919/1930) -- Sofiya Parnok -- 'I shall not lie' (poem, 1923/4) -- 'A childhood memory' (poem, 1927) -- Through a Window-Light (poem, 1928) -- Marina Tsvetaeva -- Staircase (narrative poem, 1926) -- Ekaterina Strogova -- Womenfolk (story, 1927) -- Anna Prismanova -- Lomonosov (poem, 1928) -- The Bronte Sisters (poem, 1939/1946).
• On Guard and on Town Gardens (story, c.1935) -- Anna Karavaeva -- A Soviet Madonna and Child (extract from The Flying Start - novel, 1947) -- Vera Bulich -- From my Diary, iii (1937) -- The Omnibus (poem, 1938/1954) -- Anna Barkova -- A Few Autobiographical Facts (poem, 1954) -- Tatar Anguish (poem, 1954) -- Tatyana Esenina -- Male Bonding Sessions (extract from Zhenya: The Wonder of the Twentieth Century - novel, 1962) -- Bella Akhmadulina -- Lines Written during a Sleepless Night in Tbilisi (poem, 1969) -- Mira Linkevich -- How the Cadres were Broken in (memoir, 1970s) -- Elena Shvarts -- Sale of a Historian's Library (poem, 1970s) -- Elena Chizhova -- Cassandra (poem, 1986-8) -- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- Words (story, 1988) -- Medea (story, 1989) -- Nina Sadur -- Frozen (one-act play, 1989) -- Bella Ulanovskaya -- Journey to Kashgar (story, 1973/1989) -- Olga Sedakova -- Fifth Stanzas (poem, 1992) -- Appendix: Russian text of the poems.

ISBN

• 0198715048 (cloth : alk. paper) :
• 0198715056 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

LCCN

93026542

OCLC

• 28422061
• ocm28422061

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries