Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Department "Russian and slavonic studies (MU)"

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  • Freedom and self-knowledge in the dramatic works of Anton Chekhov 

    Bartlett, Joseph (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    In his five major dramatic works, Anton Chekhov crafts characters who struggle with existential despair as a result of their inability to perform such actions. This focus on action and inaction raises analogous questions ...

  • Gender and propaganda at the crossroads (the case of Svetlana Alexievich) 

    Konatar, Biljana (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Soviet women played an important role during World War II, both in combat, and on the home front. The purpose of this thesis is to examine their role ...

  • The quarrel as a "living word" in Chekhov's early short stories 

    Zamataeva, Ekaterina (University of Missouri--Columbia[University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)
    This thesis focuses on Chekhov's early stories written in the period from 1879 to 1886. It argues that Chekhov's quarrel is a particular literary type through analysis of its functions, uses and role in the development of ...

  • Recreation of Chernobyl trauma in Svetlana Aleksiyevich's Chernobylʹskaya molitva 

    Scribner, Doris (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Little has been written about the literary methodology of the contemporary Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksiyevich. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the aesthetic manipulation of factographic content ...

  • Time and space as artistic conventions in Chekhov and Dostoyevsky 

    Wells, Olga V. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    Artistic categories of time and space have been studied extensively. There are certain conventions accepted for different genres in terms of time and space organization. Arrangement of time and space in Chekhov's plays is ...