Books in the Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature series

Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery. This book provides a broad survey of his work. Dr Cooke's aim is to be both informative and interpretative by mapping out the contours of Khlebnikov's still largely uncharted poetic world.

This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work.

This 1996 collection of fascinating essays by leading western and Russian specialists gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia.

Published in 1999 to mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches.

Published in 1999 to mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches.

This pioneering 1994 study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime.

Originally published in 1998, this was the first work to examine the extraordinary history of literary journals in imperial Russia. Essays by leading scholars analyse the social forces shaping literary journals, the major journals and journalists of the period, and the factors that contributed to their success.

In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, particularly the visual arts. This collection of essays by leading British, American and Russian scholars, first published in 2000, draws on a rich variety of material to demonstrate the creative power of Russian culture 'on the boundaries' between genres.

Dr Steinberg discusses Andrey Bely's novels by analysing Wagner's musical techniques and literary devices that Bely employs.

The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded increasing attention. This book, the first in English to be devoted entirely to him, presents a sustained and comprehensive analysis of his work to date, and offers an interpretation of his major themes

A study of the evolution of Nabokov's prose fiction from the 1920s to the late 1930s. Focusing on masterpieces such as Lolita, Professor Connolly points to the author's manipulation of the relationship between self and other.

This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, there are also discussions of lesser-known works.

This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, there are also discussions of lesser-known works.

In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, particularly the visual arts. This collection of essays by leading British, American and Russian scholars, first published in 2000, draws on a rich variety of material to demonstrate the creative power of Russian culture 'on the boundaries' between genres.

This 1996 collection of fascinating essays by leading western and Russian specialists gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia.

This pioneering 1994 study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime.

Originally published in 1998, this was the first work to examine the extraordinary history of literary journals in imperial Russia. Essays by leading scholars analyse the social forces shaping literary journals, the major journals and journalists of the period, and the factors that contributed to their success.

The first book-length study of Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers.