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Icons and the Name of God
Sergius BulgakovDiscusses the importance of icons in Orthodox theology and explains some the historical controversy surrounding icons.
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail BulgakovTRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, ...
The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, ...
Justin WeirJustin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Bulgakov's The Master and ...
The Heart Of A Dog
Mikhail BulgakovAn absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovTHE STORY: The action centers on the difficulties encountered by Professor Preobrajansky, an innovative medical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation), in his running battle with the management committee ...
Philosophical Approaches to Demonology
Preview... Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ELVIRA BASEVICH The Politics of Possession: Reading King James's Daemonologie through the Lens of Mimetic Realism DUNCAN REYBURN Notes on Contributors Bibliography ...
THE WILDERNESS TRAIL (A Western Classic)
Francis William SullivanAnd to complicate matters, both MacTavish and Sergius are in love with Fitzpatrick's young daughter Jeanne! The book was also adapted into a 1919 Hollywood silent film whose prints are now lost.
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail BulgakovWhen he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught.
A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song: 1870-1980
Victoria Etnier Villamilfor the Voice, Sergius Kagen's Music for the Voice, and especially ArtSong in the United States (Judith Carman, et al.) are all invaluable tools which I used repeatedly, they are solely annotated song listings, and therefore I do not cite them in ...
The Nabokovian
More editionsRev. of Justin Weir, The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov. The Slavonic and East European Review 8 1 , no. 3 : 54 1 - 543. KJiawaldah.LinaandGalinaKrivonos. Rev of Justin Weir, The Author as Hero: ...
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture
Preview... post-Soviet Elena Omelchenko holidays, Russian Orthodox Nadieszda Kizenko holidays, Soviet Laura Adams holy fool (iurodivyi, iurodivaia) Nadieszda Kizenko Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (TroitseSergieva Lavra) Tatiana Senkevitch ...
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