Victor Peppard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Peppard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Peppard |
| SIGNATURE | PEPPARD V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Russian studies in the wake of the war in Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a pall on Russian studies. At North American universities and colleges, faculty have conducted forums to help students understand how this senseless war came about. Enrolment in Russian language courses is down, while interest in Polish and Ukrainian is on the rise. Russian literature and cultural history are imbued with an imperial and colonial tradition that the author seeks to decolonize in his teaching. Aleksa…
Putting on ‘The Overcoat’
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice includes a section celebrating an individual story, which is a landmark in short fiction writing. For this issue, Professor Charles E. May has nominated Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’, first published in Russian in 1842. We asked the writer and Russian literature expert, Professor Victor Peppard, to answer some questions for those of us unable to read the story in its original language
Babel’s Fantastic Tales in the Tradition of Menippean Satire
Isaak Babel’ is the author of two stories, “Iisusov grekh” [The Sin of Jesus], 1921, and “Pan Apolek,” 1923, that are written in the tradition of menippean satire. These stories are filled with the kind of blasphemy, profanation, and desacrilization Mikhail Bakhtin describes as salient characteristics of menippean satire. “Sin” is a graphic example of the menippean sub-genre of “fantasticheskii rasskaz” [the fantastic tale], and “Apolek” has clea…
Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text Is It
The Poetics of Yury Olesha
In this reading of the works of Soviet author Yury Olesha, a member of the group of avant-garde writers who survived both revolution and brutal purges, Peppard employs techniques developed by Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin to examine Olesha's writings. Many of these works, especially what Peppard calls Olesha's metafictional masterpiece, Envy, embody the tradition. Peppard aims to give an analysis of Bakhtin's and Olesha's carnival cosmos, with it…
Putem vzaimnoi perepiski
Teaching Russian studies in the wake of the war in Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a pall on Russian studies. At North American universities and colleges, faculty have conducted forums to help students understand how this senseless war came about. Enrolment in Russian language courses is down, while interest in Polish and Ukrainian is on the rise. Russian literature and cultural history are imbued with an imperial and colonial tradition that the author seeks to decolonize in his teaching. Aleksa…
Putem vzaimnoi perepiski
Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text Is It
The Poetics of Yury Olesha
In this reading of the works of Soviet author Yury Olesha, a member of the group of avant-garde writers who survived both revolution and brutal purges, Peppard employs techniques developed by Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin to examine Olesha's writings. Many of these works, especially what Peppard calls Olesha's metafictional masterpiece, Envy, embody the tradition. Peppard aims to give an analysis of Bakhtin's and Olesha's carnival cosmos, with it…
Babel’s Fantastic Tales in the Tradition of Menippean Satire
Isaak Babel’ is the author of two stories, “Iisusov grekh” [The Sin of Jesus], 1921, and “Pan Apolek,” 1923, that are written in the tradition of menippean satire. These stories are filled with the kind of blasphemy, profanation, and desacrilization Mikhail Bakhtin describes as salient characteristics of menippean satire. “Sin” is a graphic example of the menippean sub-genre of “fantasticheskii rasskaz” [the fantastic tale], and “Apolek” has clea…
Putting on ‘The Overcoat’
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice includes a section celebrating an individual story, which is a landmark in short fiction writing. For this issue, Professor Charles E. May has nominated Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’, first published in Russian in 1842. We asked the writer and Russian literature expert, Professor Victor Peppard, to answer some questions for those of us unable to read the story in its original language
Teaching Russian studies in the wake of the war in Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a pall on Russian studies. At North American universities and colleges, faculty have conducted forums to help students understand how this senseless war came about. Enrolment in Russian language courses is down, while interest in Polish and Ukrainian is on the rise. Russian literature and cultural history are imbued with an imperial and colonial tradition that the author seeks to decolonize in his teaching. Aleksa…
Art (5 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (1 work)