Emily D Johnson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3922096 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emily D Johnson |
| PRENOMES | Emily D |
| SOBRENOME | Johnson |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSON E D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Writing resistance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmily D. JohnsonEmily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O’ Brien Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Penn State University Press, 2006) and the editor and translator of Arsenii Formakov, Gulag Letters (Yale University Press, 2017)
The Voice Over
Maria Stepanova The Voice Over: Poems and Essays Various translators. New York. Columbia University Press. 2021. 307 pages. THIS AMBITIOUS COLLECTION provides English-language readers with a systematic introduction to the work of one of Russia’s most important contemporary poets, Maria Stepanova (b. 1979). Stepanova’s verse is challenging, rich in literary and historical allusion, and offers readers a layered and immersive soundscape. Poems that …
Monika ZgustovaDressed for a Dance in the Snow
focus on the minute ways people did—and did not—live each day is both admirable and effective in redirecting our gaze from horror to humanity. Alison Mandaville California State University, Fresno Sharmistha Mohanty The Gods Came Afterwards New Delhi. Speaking Tiger Books. 2019. 88 pages. CLASSICAL INDIAN literature (religious as well as secular, in Sanskrit but also Prakrit, Pali, and Tamil) continues to inspire contemporary writers and to gener…
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin
Nota Bene Woman of the Ashes is a strong, independent piece, building a world on the verge of a cataclysmic transition. The tug-of-war between both Imani’s past and future lives is in constant flux and proves itself the catalyst for most of the novel’s action. The novel is just as concerned with cultural longevity as it is mortality, and the battle of both never strays far from the discourse itself. However, the nature of such a subject is both t…
Bride and Groom by Carol Apollonio
Featured Review Alisa Ganieva. Bride and Groom. Trans. Carol Apollonio. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2017. 300 pages. From the first pages of her new novel, Alisa Ganieva toys with the expectations of her readers. Her title, Bride and Groom, seems to promise a traditional marriage narrative . Indeed, her main characters, a young man and woman who have each returned home from Moscow to “an outlying settlement ” near a big city in Dagestan and face pressur…
Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin’s Imperial City
Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950, which focuses on the years in which the Soviet Union was embroiled in World War II and the postwar period, represents a significant addition to existing scholarship on the history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad and preservation efforts in the city. Steven Maddox’s well-researched monograph provides a convincing explanation for the Stalinist state’s counterintuitive decisio…
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, 1951-2015
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A New Song for a New Motherland
In March 2009 Russia's Channel One aired a live competition to choose Russia's entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Competition, which was scheduled to be held in Moscow in two months time. The results were scandalous: Anastasia Prikhod'ko, a former participant in Russia's equivalent to the American Idol competition, Fabrika zvezd , who was Ukrainian in both citizenship and nationality, won with “ Mamo ” (Mother) an emotional ballad on the pain of …
Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
COVER FEATURE Emily D.Johnson isa contributing editor toWorld Literature Today ,Associate Professor of Russian atthe University of Oklahoma, and the author of the book How StPetersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Penn State University Press, 2006). Editorial note: For WLT's further reading list of prose andpoetry from allfifteen post-Soviet countries, visit our website, worldliteraturetoday.com. 321 World Literature …
How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself
Stalinist Secret Pogrom
Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-44
A New Song for a New Motherland
In March 2009 Russia's Channel One aired a live competition to choose Russia's entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Competition, which was scheduled to be held in Moscow in two months time. The results were scandalous: Anastasia Prikhod'ko, a former participant in Russia's equivalent to the American Idol competition, Fabrika zvezd , who was Ukrainian in both citizenship and nationality, won with “ Mamo ” (Mother) an emotional ballad on the pain of …
How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself
Stalinist Secret Pogrom
Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-44
Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
COVER FEATURE Emily D.Johnson isa contributing editor toWorld Literature Today ,Associate Professor of Russian atthe University of Oklahoma, and the author of the book How StPetersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Penn State University Press, 2006). Editorial note: For WLT's further reading list of prose andpoetry from allfifteen post-Soviet countries, visit our website, worldliteraturetoday.com. 321 World Literature …
A New Song for a New Motherland
In March 2009 Russia's Channel One aired a live competition to choose Russia's entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Competition, which was scheduled to be held in Moscow in two months time. The results were scandalous: Anastasia Prikhod'ko, a former participant in Russia's equivalent to the American Idol competition, Fabrika zvezd , who was Ukrainian in both citizenship and nationality, won with “ Mamo ” (Mother) an emotional ballad on the pain of …
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, 1951-2015
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin’s Imperial City
Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950, which focuses on the years in which the Soviet Union was embroiled in World War II and the postwar period, represents a significant addition to existing scholarship on the history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad and preservation efforts in the city. Steven Maddox’s well-researched monograph provides a convincing explanation for the Stalinist state’s counterintuitive decisio…
Bride and Groom by Carol Apollonio
Featured Review Alisa Ganieva. Bride and Groom. Trans. Carol Apollonio. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2017. 300 pages. From the first pages of her new novel, Alisa Ganieva toys with the expectations of her readers. Her title, Bride and Groom, seems to promise a traditional marriage narrative . Indeed, her main characters, a young man and woman who have each returned home from Moscow to “an outlying settlement ” near a big city in Dagestan and face pressur…
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin
Nota Bene Woman of the Ashes is a strong, independent piece, building a world on the verge of a cataclysmic transition. The tug-of-war between both Imani’s past and future lives is in constant flux and proves itself the catalyst for most of the novel’s action. The novel is just as concerned with cultural longevity as it is mortality, and the battle of both never strays far from the discourse itself. However, the nature of such a subject is both t…
Monika ZgustovaDressed for a Dance in the Snow
focus on the minute ways people did—and did not—live each day is both admirable and effective in redirecting our gaze from horror to humanity. Alison Mandaville California State University, Fresno Sharmistha Mohanty The Gods Came Afterwards New Delhi. Speaking Tiger Books. 2019. 88 pages. CLASSICAL INDIAN literature (religious as well as secular, in Sanskrit but also Prakrit, Pali, and Tamil) continues to inspire contemporary writers and to gener…
The Voice Over
Maria Stepanova The Voice Over: Poems and Essays Various translators. New York. Columbia University Press. 2021. 307 pages. THIS AMBITIOUS COLLECTION provides English-language readers with a systematic introduction to the work of one of Russia’s most important contemporary poets, Maria Stepanova (b. 1979). Stepanova’s verse is challenging, rich in literary and historical allusion, and offers readers a layered and immersive soundscape. Poems that …
Writing resistance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmily D. JohnsonEmily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O’ Brien Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Penn State University Press, 2006) and the editor and translator of Arsenii Formakov, Gulag Letters (Yale University Press, 2017)
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