Life Is Elsewhere : : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917 /

Life Is Elsewhere : : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917 / / Anne Lounsbery.

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In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical...

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Lounsbery, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • 1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground
  • 2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside
  • 3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others)
  • 4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N
  • 5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste
  • 6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans
  • 7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces
  • 8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia?
  • 9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
  • 10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness
  • 11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality
  • 12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Biblio Frontmatter
  • We dedicate this book to the memory of Theodore A. Parker III
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Nomenclature
  • PART I. DEVELOPMENT
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ecology of Passerine Song Development
  • 2. Eco-gen-actics: A Systems Approach to the Ontogeny of Avian Communication
  • 3. Nature and Its Nurturing in Avian Vocal Development
  • 4. Birdsong Learning in the Laboratory and Field
  • 5. Acquisition and Performance of Song Repertoires: Ways of Coping with Diversity and Versatility
  • 6. Acoustic Communication in Parrots: Laboratory and Field Studies of Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus
  • PART II. VOCAL REPERTOIRES
  • Introduction
  • 7. Categorization and the Design of Signals: The Case of Song Repertoires
  • 8. Comparative Analysis of Vocal Repertoires, with Reference to Chickadees
  • 9. Acoustic Communication in a Group of Nonpasserine Birds, the Petrels
  • PART III. VOCAL VARIATION IN TIME AND SPACE
  • Introduction
  • 10. The Population Memgraphy
  • Index

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