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The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets / by Wanner, Adrian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion…”
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Imperial rule

Table of Contents: “…Werth -- Redefining identities in the late Ottoman Empire : policies of conversion and apostasy / Selim Deringil -- Empire on Europe's periphery : Russian and western comparisons / Dominic Lieven -- The Spanish empire and its end : a comparative view in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe / Sebastian Balfour -- The Russian-American company as a colonial contractor for the Russian empire / Ilya Vinkovetsky -- The comparative ecology of complex frontiers / Alfred J. …”
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