Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910Alexander S. MORRISON

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...

Robust Rule-Based Break Assignment for Russian

This paper introduces a linguistically motivated rule-based method of automatic segmentation of a Russian text in intonational units. We claim that it can provide a high correct prosodic break assignment rate (92.1% junctures correct for spontaneous speech), staying flexible at the same time, which is especially important for rule-based models. The kernel of the proposed algorithm, in addition ...

african-american subjectivity in toni morrison's beloved

the present project is an attempt to give a model of african-american subjectivity by applying different theories of subjectivity to toni morrison's representation of african-american people in beloved. since beloved represents a group of ex-slaves, who remember harsh memories of slavery, their subjectivities can be analyzed from a post-colonial perspective within the framework of the rela...

Through the Russian Looking Glass: The Development of a Russian Rule of Law and Democracy

The (Q,S,s) Pricing Rule∗

We introduce menu costs in the search-theoretic model of imperfect competition of Burdett and Judd (1983). When menu costs are not too large, the equilibrium is such that sellers follow a (Q,S,s) pricing rule. According to the rule, a seller lets inflation erode the real value of its nominal price until it reaches some point s. Then, the seller pays the menu cost and resets the real value of it...