Arnold Mcmillin

Biographic Data

ID1025344
NAMEArnold Mcmillin
GIVEN NAMESArnold
FAMILY NAMEMcmillin
SIGNATUREMCMILLIN A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-6883-9852
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR35
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • In the Tight Triangle of the Night

    Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2025

  • MaÍcy vychodziać z-pad kantroliu

    Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2024

  • Three Generations of Belarusian Historical Fiction in Prose and Verse

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEPrzegląd Wschodnioeuropejski2023

    Beginning with attempts to deny or repress the very idea of Belarusian history, this article is devoted the use of historical themes by three generations of Belarusian writers, with the youngest first and ending with three from the middle generation who, as a rule, do not show the influence of their elders on themselves, nor do they seem greatly to influence the younger writers. All ages, however, are engaged in the same struggle to counter the a…

  • The Francis Skaryna Library as Experienced by a Long-Time User

    Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2021

    This article presents a personal view of the Francis Skaryna Library and Museum in London from its early days to the present, reflecting its ups and downs, as well as some of its affiliations like the Anglo-Belarusian Society and the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain, and in later years fruitful connections with the British Library and the National Library of Belarus. It concentrates on a few of the many interesting and distinguished pe…

  • Tancy nad horadam, written by Uladzimir Arloŭ

    Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2020

  • The Role of Michaś Skobla in the Belarusian Literary Process

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2020

    The many-sided work of Michaś Skobla (b. 1966) takes a variety of forms, including that of prose writer, critic, editor, anthologist, parodist, translator, radio correspondent and lyric poet. The article aims to outline the main features of his writing, with particular emphasis on his parodies and lyric poetry, in this way showing his central role in the Belarusian literary process of today

  • The Prose and Drama of an Outstanding Poet, Voĺha Hapiejeva

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEPrzegląd Wschodnioeuropejski2019

    This article reviews the prose and drama of Voĺha Hapiejeva up to 2018. The main themes of her work are: feminism, gender and sexual relations in a patriarchal society, and also various aspects of contemporary life, A Candidate of Science, she brings into her works, humorously, a variety of linguistic and grammatical forms. Her work is notable for its strong use of imagery, lively dialogues and many, especially in the plays, much absurdity. Witho…

  • The Belarusian leadership, his country and squalor as depicted in the work of young Belarusian prose writers

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEPrzegląd Wschodnioeuropejski2018

    This article reviews some of the recent texts of young Belarusian prose writers about leadership, the country itself, squalor and alcohol abuse. The attitudes to the Leader in this highly varied selction of stories are at best humorous and more often disrespectful, whilst the picture of Belarus given is of a backward, sometimes squalid country with serious social problems, like violence and excessive drinking

  • The Ballads of Uladzimir Arloŭ

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2018

  • Contemporary Belarusian Literature

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2014

  • Punishment Without Crime

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2013

    I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.' Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) 'Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage...' Richard Lovelace, 'To Althea, from Prison: Song' (1649) In Belarus during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries many people were punished with imprisonment for the 'crime' of resisting hostile political systems or defending mi…

  • Feminization of the Belarusian Language

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies2013

    This slim monograph, modestly described as an essay, by Uladzislaǔ Harbacki (pen name of Uladzislaǔ Ivanoǔ) is a pioneering work in the troubled world of Belarusian orthography and word formation.Its main focus is the feminization of a narrow linguistic category, namely nomina agentis: positions, titles, professions and types of work.By feminization should be understood the use of feminine suffixes.The book's main purpose is to suggest ways of re…

  • Belarusian Literature of the Diaspora

    Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski, Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2003

  • Versification

    Tim Carter, G Sadler et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Home Thoughts From Abroad

    Arnold McmillinARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies1999

  • Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

    Arnold Mcmillin, Irina PapernoARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1999

  • Under Eastern Eyes

    Richard C Borden, Richard Borden et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1994Cited by: 1

  • Symbolism and after

    Evelyn Bristol, Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Russian Review1994

    This collection offers a vivid picture of richness and diversity, of remarkably strong cultural development against a background of repression and new hope. It comprises theoretical, historical and purely analytical articles and has a pronounced comparative slant with recurrent themes including synaesthesia, Symbolist aesthetics, decadence, Don Juan and Wagner

  • Symbolism and after

    Maria Pavlovszky, Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1993

  • A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev 1900-1909

    Radha Balasubramanian, Stephen C Hutching et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1993

    This thesis applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreyev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorising Andreyev's unique art and placing it within a literary-evolutionary perspective. The semiotic method was chosen because of its ability both to assimilate literary texts to the supra-individual processes with which it works, and at the same time to delineate an author's particu…

  • From Pushkin to Palisandriia

    Ronald D Leblanc, Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Russian Review1992

    Pushkin and the novel, David Budgen Geroi nashego vremeni as emblematic prose text, Robin Aizlewood the analytical genius - Bednye liudi and the Russian prose tradition, Richard Peace Dumas and Dostoevskii - deflowering the camellia, Donald Rayfield aspects of novelistic technique in Besy, Roy Davison dreams and fantasy in Oblomov, Faith Wigzell no smoke without fire - the genesis of Turgenev's Dym, Patrick Waddington Turgenev's constancy in his …

  • The effect of exile on modern Russian writers

    Arnold McmillinARTICLERenaissance and Modern Studies1991References: 1

  • Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1991

  • Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

    George Gibian, Arnold McmillinARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1990

  • Francis Skaryna’s Biblical Prefaces and Their Place in Early Byelorussian Literature

    Open AccessArnold McmillinARTICLEThe Journal of Belarusian Studies1988