Annotated Bibliography On Anna Akhmatova

The end of the nineteenth century marked a brilliant period in Russian literature defined by innovation and experimentation. With political and economic changes sweeping over Russia, its literature displayed the anxious, even hostile reaction to the modernization of a nation that hadn’t seen transformations in decades. The Petty Demon, Wings, and Petersburg considered to be some of the greatest works of the time, were unique pieces of literature in the decadence period, although they borrowed and built on elements from other authors of the time. The analysis of these novels, in terms of conventional categories of literary analysis, including thematics, narration, and setting is not only a means to display the uncommon structure of the novel, but also to demonstrate its association with other influential authors. In the writings of The Petty Demon, Wings, and Petersburg these authors dismantle the ideas of other authors and then parody them, therefore subverting the norms of realist pros and making reader think of a particular style of writing and then goes to write the complete opposite.

Author Daniel Beer is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Royal Holloway, University of London. In addition to The House of the Dead, Beer is author of another book, Renovating Russia: the Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity and has contributed on several articles about nineteenth century Imperial Russia. Beer exhibits vast knowledge, extensive research, and ongoing devotion to this topic. With the many articles and books he has written, international educational trips to archives and academies, and ranking as senior lecturer, his expertise and care for nineteenth century Russia is clearly demonstrated.

There had been many rumors that some of the family members of the Tsar’s family had escaped the soldiers and the woman had the same eye color, hair color, height, and body marking as Anastasia. The Russian public was not hesitant to accept the woman known as Anastasia Anderson to be the real Anastasia Romanov. In 1991, the remains of the Romanov family were found and exhumed in Siberia. Portions of skeletons were found and the remains were identified as the Tsarina. Three of her female children using mitochondrial

Not only is Petrukhina’s family falling apart, she also experiences professional distress. After the war, she remains an authoritative figure as a headmistress. Nevertheless, her new profession requires her to fulfill a maternal role. In the school, her rough demeanor makes her mean and unpopular among her students. Her failure to help a problematic student makes her appear unsuitable for her job in the school. It shows her failure to achieve “professional self-realization” as expected for the women in the new post-war society (77). Her professional failure seems to contradict her independent personality, showing the ambivalent interpretation of gender equality before and after the war. Women gained equality during the war when they were recruited into the military, but the post-war equality is based on maternal images of the women. This paradox of gender equality causes Petrukhina to feel frustrated when her personality from the war clashes with a new identity that she tries to foster in order to fit into the post-war soviety.

The one thing that we all need is Food. In the U.S. and all over the world there are many people who lack the funds to buy food and millions of starving children. Anna states in her essay that most kids have trouble getting food when school is out because that is the primary source that provides breakfast and lunch. “Summer is really ground zero in the battle to keep kids fed.” (pg 224)

Auty, Robert, and Dimitri Obolensky. 1976. "An Introduction to Russian History (Companion to Russian Studies;1)." Brisol, Great Britain : Cambridge University Press Ltd.

first-person accounts and Zasulich’s friends, lovers, influencers and her inner-circle are vividly presented, which helps bring the book to life and achieves Siljak’s goal of explaining what Zasulich and fostered terrorism and allows us to understand how love for one’s fellow humans can lead one to kill. These circumstances, relationships and actions heavily influenced Zasulich. The book also makes us realize that Zasulich was a smart and devoted woman who acted in a way that was way ahead of her time. One shortcoming of the biography is that the author conveys a lack of in depth understanding of the various ideologies/ideas/different groups that she writes about, especially the nihilists, anarchists and socialists. Lastly, after finishing this book, I still felt that I didn’t know Zasulich as well as I had hoped, instead the author focused more intently on the Russian revolutionary movement both after and before Zasulich’s

Levertov took part a large movement to help the country’s state. “On a small scale, the decade of the 1970s was a time of personal change in the subject matter of Levertov 's poetry, and, on a large scale, these were years of sometimes odd, sometimes benign change…” The time period which Levertov began her poetry, the time period began to reflect on her work, causing her ideas to thrash around involuntarily. “Because Levertov never received a formal education, her earliest literary influences can be traced to her home life in Ilford, England…Levertov and her older sister, Olga, were educated by their Welsh mother, Beatrice Adelaide Spooner-Jones, until the age of thirteen. The girls further received sporadic religious training from their father, Paul Philip Levertoff, a Russian Jew who converted to Christianity and subsequently moved to England and became an Anglican

In Alexander Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades,” many aspects of the short story have made for considerable debate among scholars.  Pushkin fills an integral role in Russian literary history, and there are abundant research sources to use in analyzing and interpreting his texts.  Pushkin is often referred to as the Father of Modern Russian Literature, but until just recently much of the criticism on Pushkin focused on Pushkin himself as the author, the innovative simplicity in his prose, or the political relationship between Pushkin and the Russian aristocracy.  Pushkin’s personal life was often the subject of public debate among his readers and the Russian aristocracy,

Both poems by Wislawa symborska and anna akhmatova retell the story in the Bible where Sodom is being destroyed and Lot is to lead some people out. His wife follows him unwillingly. Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova have written two diverse poems from different perspective as well on the story of Lot’s wife. The main idea in William Symborska is that Lot’s wife was judged unfairly when her reason for turning was unknown. She lists several reasons and takes the voice of Lot’s wife.

In the Roman religion, owls who are marked as a source of evil. Lamia is the one who stalked around looking for children to eat. The ghosts of the dead (lemures) roamed in all kinds of dark places.

Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, composes an elegy titled Requiem as a way for her to describe what she and many others felt and experienced throughout those years. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem conveys the grief she endured and the grief that others faced at the loss of their loved ones. Throughout

In 19th century Russian literature there was often a gender inequality depicted between the male and female characters. Women were expected to get married, start a family, and obey their husbands. Women often made sacrifices and married men they weren’t fond of in order to support their families. Anton Chekhov’s writing questions these gender relationships. The female characters have a strong presence within Chekhov’s works, and they transcend typical gender roles.

This state of denial can be prominently depicted within Szymborska’s poem, “Identification.” The poem presents a chronological experience of a woman's developing emotions as she rejects the fact that her husband had past away. The false sense of security resides within this poem, as the repetition of “it’s good you came,” presumably attempts to formulate a positive motif throughout the morbid poem(1, 17, 23). The comfort of others conceals the genuine emotion of loneliness, as the death of a loved one creates a false sense of reality; therefore, the constant reminder that someone else was with the recipient of the bad news, reminds them that they are not completely alone in the world. Furthermore, the sense of denial is continued through the hope of objects just being ordinary, such as, “ a scrap of shirt, a watch, [and] a wedding ring.” Szymborska uses this asyndeton in order to create a sense of irony, as the objects become more specific as the “names on that ring” (10); nevertheless, this creates a false sense of comfort for the aspect that anyone could own these objects, in which portrays the yearning for a confirmation that the speaker’s loved one was not affiliated with this tragedy. Szymborska’s use of the euphemism, “rubber sleeping bag,” facilitates the endeavor to maintain the attempted positive motif, despite the “rubber sleeping bag” referring to a body bag (24). The body bag provides a false sense of a lighthearted connotation of a “sleeping bag” to being the cruel reality of death. Throughout “Identification,” Szymborska mocks the oblivion and denial of the woman despite the morbid context of the poem. Through this method Szymborska further implies that one should face reality. Precisely as society should not be dictated without truly analyzing the true intention of

By using uncomplicated terms, Yevtushenko underscores his poem is about all people and for all people because it can be understood even by those with limited literary analysis skills. This is in keeping with his view of himself as, “a man of socialist convictions” (Schmemann).