Western and in his Russian connections two distinct and contrasting faces. ... The Russian assumes, as a matter of course, that no foreigner can really know Russia, since one cannot imagine it correctly in any terms supplied by the West ...
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Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Language: en
Pages: 428
Pages: 428
This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration
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Pages: 640
Pages: 640
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study