Russian Literature Triquarterly

Russian Literature in English (RULE)

RULE205 The 19th-Century Russian Novel The 19th-century novel is widely regarded as the supreme achievement of Russian literature. This course will trace its development from Pushkin's elegant, witty novel in verse, EUGENE ONEGIN, through the grotesque comedies of Gogol, to the realist masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, with their complex depiction of human psychology and the philosophical...

Russian "world-class" Literature: Russian Detective Novels since the 1990s

In the 1990s the book market and the production and reception of literature in Russia radically changed, conforming to Western patterns. This transformation is mostly – and even from the side of scholars – estimated as an emancipatory development. But unlike vanguard postmodern literature, which considers and ironically reverses clichés and stereotypes, mass fiction provides unambiguous element...

Russian Literature in the Christian Context

Latent Semantic Analysis for Russian Literature Investigation

The paper presents the results of experiments of usage of Latent Semantic Analysis for analysis of textual data. The method is explained in brief and special attention is pointed on its potential for comparison and investigation of Russian literature texts. Two hypotheses are tested: • The texts by the same author are alike and can be distinguished from the ones by different person; • The prose...

Translation of Russian technical literature by machine

The Russian alphabet, the Russian words encountered in scientific and technical material and the Russian grammar differ greatly from their English counterparts. In order to read scientific or technical Russian, it is necessary to have the meaning of a large number of Russian words stored in the memory. In translating Russian, the corresponding English words must be supplied by the memory accura...