March 11th, 2010
This special issue of Slavonic & East European Review is now also available as a book. Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) made her reputation as one of the foremost historians of the age of Peter the Great by revealing the more freakish aspects of the tsar’s complex mind and reconstructing the various physical environments in which he lived.
Contributors to Personality and Place in Russian Culture were encouraged to develop any of the approaches featured in Hughes’s work: pointillist and panoramic, playful and morbid, quotidian and bizarre. The result is a rich and original collection, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, in which a group of leading international scholars explore the role of the individual in Russian culture, the myriad variety of individual lives, and the changing meanings invested in particular places.
More information is available here.
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Tags: Lindsey Hughes, Peter the Great, Russian Culture, Simon Dixon
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February 19th, 2010
E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alcohol: Biography, Reception, and Art by Victoria Dutchman-Smith & The Wallenstein Figure in German Literature and Historiography 1790-1920 by Steffan Davies – vols 75 and 76 respectively in the MHRA Texts & Dissertations series – are now published.
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February 13th, 2010
The January/April 2010 double issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online. This is a special issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Lindsey Hughes.
The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
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January 29th, 2010
The MHRA is delighted to announce the publication of the 18th volume in the PMHRA series: Writing in a Cold Climate: Belarusian Literature from the 1970s to the Present Day
This monograph, the first of its kind, attempts to describe and assess the work of nearly two hundred Belarusian writers and literary groups, ranging over poetry, prose and drama. The coverage includes provincial as well as metropolitan literature and groupings, and pays particular attention to seven outstanding authors of the period, to historical writing which is particularly important in a country where history has been suppressed and denied, and to the youngest generation of talented poets and prose writers born in the early 1980s at the very end of the Soviet Union’s existence.
Further details are available here.
Tags: Arnold McMillin, Belarusian Literature
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January 19th, 2010
The MHRA is pleased to announce the updating of the UTREES database with a further 200+ records relating to recent theses.
Beginning in a handful of universities in the early years of the last century, British and Irish postgraduate research on Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe grew rapidly in the post-war period. It has been given further impetus by the fall of communism and the multitude of political, cultural and economic consequences which ensued. This bibliography registers a full century of academic study devoted to a vitally important area of the world.
The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities – over 3,700 in all. It covers all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as they relate to the area of Russia, the former USSR and Eastern Europe. It is believed to be the fullest and longest record of postgraduate research in any interdisciplinary field of study, and reveals a strikingly broad range of topics and treatments: from Pushkin to Putin; from the Cold War to the transition economies; from the Bogomils to Solidarity; and from health care to human rights.
Further Details
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January 11th, 2010
The January 2010 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on:
‘Strange’, ‘foreign’, and ‘alien’ in Medieval England; Lord Fairfax on the Breeding of Horses; Milton, Locke, and Cosmopolitan Right; Reading Ruskin; Camus’s Le Premier Homme; Aimé Césaire and Postcolonial Humanism; Women, Language Games, and Debates in the Cinquecento; The Title of Quevedo’s Buscón; Soy paciente and the Fear of Individual Freedom; The First English Translation of Mann’s Das Gesetz; as well as more than 80 book reviews.
The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.
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November 10th, 2009
Space/Time, the fourth issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, is now available open-access online.
It features articles on: French Catholic Writers between the Mimetic Crisis and the Crucified; Vertiginous Spaces in Bataille’s Le Bleu du ciel; The Rebirth of Inherited Memories; Melville’s Benito Cereno; Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Arte; and Mobile Narrative, Spatial Mediation, and Gaskell’s Urban Rustics in North and South.
MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities is an electronic publication forum intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses such as might, at a more advanced stage, become eligible for publication in established scholarly journals. As such it will be of particular interest to postgraduate researchers, though established scholars are also invited to submit papers.
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November 5th, 2009
The Association intends to make up to four research awards of £17,500 for the academic session 2010-11. These awards will not be made to individuals as such, but to established corporate projects such as dictionaries, textual editions, bibliographies, or other major scholarly enterprises, within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures. The awards are designed to hasten the completion of projects of special importance through the provision of part-time research assistance. The awards will normally be for one year only, but applications will be considered from projects which have previously held an Associateship.
Details are available here.
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November 5th, 2009
The MHRA intends to make up to five grants of up to £1,500 each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures (including English) planned for the academic session 2010–11 and held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2010.
These awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.
Details are available here.
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October 27th, 2009
The October 2009 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online, with scholarly contributions on Slavonic language, literature, and history.
This issue includes articles on Platonov’s Chevengur; Austria-Hungary, Serbia and the Bosnian Question 1867-71; A Translation of the Gesta Hungorum of the Anonymous Notary of King Béla.
The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
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