Research Catalog

Title

Mapping the feminine : Russian women and cultural difference / edited by Hilde Hoogenboom, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Irina Reyfman.

Publication

Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoogenboom, Hilde.
• Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.
• Reyfman, Irina.
• Ledkovskai︠a︡-Astman, Marina.

Description

iii, 357 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Ledkovskaja-Astman, Marina 1924-
• Ledkovskaja-Astman, Marina
• 1800-1899
• Women > Russia
• Russian literature > Women authors
• Women > Russia > Intellectual life
• Women and literature > Russia > History > 19th century
• Women
• Women and literature
• Women > Intellectual life
• Frau
• Kultur
• Russisch
• Bellettrie
• Uitvoerende kunsten
• Vrouwen
• Gender & Ethnic Studies
• Social Sciences
• Gender Studies & Sexuality
• Frau > Russland > Geschichte Neuzeit
• Frau > Russland (Föderation)
• Frau > Literatur > Russland > Geschichte Neuzeit
• Frauenliteratur > russische > Geschichte Neuzeit
• Frau > Motiv > Russische Literatur
• Russische Literatur > Motiv > Frau
• Russia
• Russland

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This volume honors the extraordinary life, path-breaking career, and pioneering scholarship of a truly modest woman--Professor Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, Barnard College emerita"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Hilde Hoogenboom -- Marina Ledkovsky at Columbia / Robert Belknap -- Curriculum vitae -- Vision and revision. Female voice and male gaze in Leo Tolstoy's 'Family Happiness' / Irina Reyfman -- Learning how to look: Nastasia Filippovna in 'The Idiot' / Gina Kovarsky -- Feminine resurrections: gendering redemption in the last novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky / Rebecca Stanton -- Nature and culture. A tale of two cities: Tolstoy's gendered moral geography in 'Anna Karenina' / Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier -- Landscapes of girlhood: forest space in 'A Russian childhood and 'The tragic menagerie' / Jane Costlow -- Women's "Nature" and creativity in the Silver Age / Charlotte Rosenthal -- Performance and staging. Self-presentation on stage and page in the memoirs of Russian women performers / Maude Meisel -- Sister acts: Autobiographies by two nineteenth-century Russian actresses in cultural perspective / Mary F. Zirin -- Dance as metaphor: The Russian ballerina and imperial imagination / Catharine Theimer -- Exile and return. Lidiia Ginzburg's 'Notes of a blockade person': self and others as polyphonic chorus / Mallika Ramdas -- Aristocrats and working girls: towards a history of Russian émigré women in the United States / Beth Holmgren -- Pseudonyms and personae of Marianna Kolosova: creating a new feminine voice in emigration / Carol Ueland -- Gender politics and canon. Poèt, Poètessa, Zhenshcina-Poèt: job titles and comparable worth / Diana Greene -- The non-canonical canon: from Nikolai Novikov's 'Historical Dictionary' to 'Dictionary of Russian Women Writers' / Hilde Hoogenboom -- Contemporary Russian women's journals: a case study of 'We/Mbl / Ellen Chances -- Interview with Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, conducted by Hilde Hoogenboom and Maude Meisel, March 4, 2007.

ISBN

• 089357354X
• 9780893573546

LCCN

2008038775

OCLC

• ocn236549320
• 236549320
• SCSB-1528042

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library