Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York : : America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception /

Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York : : America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception / / Milla Fedorova.

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Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition from the Russian to the Soviet version. The material on which Milla Fedorova bases her study comprises a curious phenomenon of the waning nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Fedorova, Milla,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I BOLSHEVIKS IN NEW YORK
  • I. Pre-Revolutionary Discoveries of America
  • 2. Post-Revolutionary Columbuses
  • 3. Automobile Journeys of the 1930s
  • PART II THE AMERICAN TEXT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
  • 4. Recurrent Subtexts and Motifs in American Travelogues
  • PART III YANKEES IN PETROGRAD
  • 5. Reverse American Travelogues
  • CONCLUSION From Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca
  • Appendix 1 Lexical and Grammatical Neologisms in Pilniak's OK
  • Appendix 2 The Transatlantic Journey
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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