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Толкование путешествий: Россия и Америка в травелогах и интертекстах (Научная библиотека)
Культурный диалог между Россией и Америкой продолжается веками, несмотря на все исторические препятствия. Писатели и философы обеих стран внимательно следили за политическими, социальными и художественными экспериментами друг друга. Реальные и воображаемые путешествия за океан, которые они для этого совершали, помогали им осмыслить опыт другого и лучше понять себя. Эти контакты и фантазии порождали необычные сближения идей и сюжетов. Перечитывая известные тексты русской и американской литературных традиций с точки зрения взаимосвязи двух культур, Александр Эткинд предлагает их новые интерпретации. Как Пушкин читал знаменитый трактат Токвиля, как
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Published September 5, 2022
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Alexander Etkind
35 books54 followersAlexander Etkind (Russian: Александр Эткинд) was born in Leningrad and moved to Cambridge, UK in 2005. He is now is a Professor in Russian Literature and Cultural History and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Alexander has PhD in Psychology from Bekhterev Institute, Leningrad, and another in Slavonic Literatures from the University of Helsinki.
Before coming to the UK, he taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, with which he continues to collaborate. He was a visiting professor at New York University and Georgetown University, and a resident fellow at Harvard, Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C., Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
His research interests are internal colonization in the Russian Empire, comparative studies of cultural memory, and the dynamics of the protest movement in Russia. In 2010-2013, he is directing the European research project, Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
Before coming to the UK, he taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, with which he continues to collaborate. He was a visiting professor at New York University and Georgetown University, and a resident fellow at Harvard, Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C., Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
His research interests are internal colonization in the Russian Empire, comparative studies of cultural memory, and the dynamics of the protest movement in Russia. In 2010-2013, he is directing the European research project, Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
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December 25, 2025
Книга о различиях, сходствах и взаимосвязях антиподов. Читается непросто, но так же непросто и оторваться от этого полёта эрудированной мысли.
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