Slavic Languages and Literatures Dissertations and Theses
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Online Conflict Discourse, Identity, and the Social Imagination of Silesian Minority in Poland
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This dissertation shows how online discourse drives social change, boundary work, identity performance, and, ultimately, community management (including in-group/out-group membership) by looking at the development and ... -
Color, Line, and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation investigates Tolstoy’s anxiety over the written word and its ability to communicate truth to the reader. I examine how Tolstoy compensates for the shortcomings of language by borrowing techniques from ... -
Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Russian Symbolists struggled to write a counter-narrative to the prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern ... -
Terror and Transcendence in the Void: Viktor Pelevin’s Philosophy of Emptiness
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This dissertation explores the Russian experience of the “void” left in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union as it is reflected in Viktor Pelevin’s Chapaev and Pustota (1996), Generation “P” (1999), The Sacred Book ... -
Rethinking Reflexivity: SJA/SE-verbs in Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation is a comparative study of the class of verbs commonly termed “reflexive” in Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). These verbs occur with the affix -sja in Russian and with the clitic se in BCS. ... -
Resurrection: The History and Reconstitution of the Eurasian Idea
(University of Kansas, 2002-05-14)The paper looks at the historical basis for the belief that Russian values are neither eastern nor western, but something in between - Eurasian. It traces the philosophical roots of the Eurasian idea and lays out how Russian ... -
The Prefix PO- and Aspect in Russian and Polish: A Cognitive Grammar Account
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This study examines the meanings of the prefix po- and verbal aspect in Russian and Polish in a Cognitive Grammar framework. The principles of Cognitive Grammar adopted in this study are based on Langacker (1991). This ... -
Textual Dimensions of Urban Space in M.A. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)This dissertation explores the relationship between urban space and urban text according to the principles outlined by the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics in the 1980s and 90s. While the Petersburg Text in V.N. Toporov's ... -
On the Paths of the Soul: Stanisław Przybyszewski and the Russian Stage. The Cases of Vera Komissarzhevskaia and Vsevolod Meierkhol'd (1900-1910)
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)This dissertation inquires into the impact of the controversial Polish dramatist, essayist, and novelist Stanisław Przybyszewski on the theatrical innovations of two great Russian actor-directors of the early 20th century, ... -
The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-29)"The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture" defines, analyzes, and explains the figure of the Soviet "woman warrior" who participated in World War II, asking the questions: what is the nature of the ...