"Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its ...European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin’s classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol’s Dead Souls—a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic—Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this book redefines “epic”.
Among the many and varied critical responses to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, two Russian voices have not been heard in the West - Akim Volynskii's (on the right) and Anatolii Lunacharskii's (on the ...left). The former, Petersburg-based ballet critic from 1911 to 1925, followed the Russian Seasons with anxious dismay as so many stars of the Mariinskii Theatre departed for Paris; the latter, Soviet Russia's Commissar for Enlightenment between 1917 and 1929, witnessed Diaghilev's enterprise first-hand - both before World War I and after - and wrote about it with a mixture of admiration and class-conscious disapproval. These critics' observations are offered in English translation for the first time.
In his seminal paper on triangle centers, Clark Kimberling made a number of
conjectures concerning the distances between triangle centers. For example, if
$D(i; j)$ denotes the distance between ...triangle centers $X_i$ and $X_j$ ,
Kimberling conjectured that $D(6; 1) \leq D(6; 3)$ for all triangles. We use
symbolic mathematics techniques to prove these conjectures. In addition, we
prove stronger results, using best-possible constants, such as $D(6; 1) \leq (2
-\sqrt3)D(6; 3)$.
The first isodynamic point of a triangle is one of many notable points associated with a triangle. It is named X(15) in the Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers. This paper surveys known results about ...this point and gives additional properties that were discovered by computer.
Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This ...book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.
Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's articles-vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky's magnum opus,The Book of Exaltations,an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky's life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet.
If P is a point inside triangle ABC, then the cevians through P extended to the circumcircle of triangle ABC create a figure containing a number of curvilinear triangles. Each curvilinear triangle is ...bounded by an arc of the circumcircle and two line segments lying along the sides or cevians of the original triangle. We give theorems about the relationships between the radii of circles inscribed in various sets of these curvilinear triangles.
We systematically investigate properties of various triangle centers (such as orthocenter or incenter) located on the four faces of a tetrahedron. For each of six types of tetrahedra, we examine over ...100 centers located on the four faces of the tetrahedron. Using a computer, we determine when any of 16 conditions occur (such as the four centers being coplanar). A typical result is: The lines from each vertex of a circumscriptible tetrahedron to the Gergonne points of the opposite face are concurrent.
We study some properties of a triad of circles associated with a triangle. Each circle is inside the triangle, tangent to two sides of the triangle, and externally tangent to the circle on the third ...side as diameter. In particular, we find a nice relation involving the radii of the inner and outer Apollonius circles of the three circles in the triad.
We study properties of certain circles associated with a triangle. Each circle is inside the triangle, tangent to two sides of the triangle, and externally tangent to the arc of a circle erected ...internally on the third side.
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