Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov: The Road to Hell in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 715-735
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Nikolsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Road ◽  
Varlam Shalamov

scholarly journals The Storyline of the Traject in the Prose of the Russian Emigration of the First Wave

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-265
Author(s):  
Victoria T. Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
World Views ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Heaven And Earth

<p>The purpose of this article is to analyze the storytline of the traject in the works of Russian writers of Russian emigration of the first wave, such as: B.&nbsp;Zaitsev, L.&nbsp;Zurov and E.&nbsp;Chirikov. On the examples of the novels <em>Silence</em> from the autobiographical tetralogy <em>The Journey of Gleb</em> by B.&nbsp;K.&nbsp;Zaitsev and <em>The Ancient Way</em> by L.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;Zurov, the problem of the storyline of the traject in the individually-authorial world views is explored. Analysis of the story by E.&nbsp;Chirikov <em>Between Heaven and Earth</em> allows us to see clearly this situation, embodiedin the genre form of the story. The conducted research helps to make certain of new possibilities of Russian prose of the twentieth century, which is typologically gravitating to the neorealistic type of artistic consciousness, with attention to the ontological spheres of being, to convincing confirmation by the examples presented from ancient times inherent in Russian literature of the <em>paskhal'nost'</em> (Easter character) dominant.<strong><em></em></strong></p>

What Was Gained

2018 ◽  
pp. 286-310
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Welfare Reforms

This concluding chapter summarizes the book's major findings. The road to the welfare state of the 1940s was not a wide and straight thoroughfare through Victorian and Edwardian Britain. As the previous chapters have made clear, the story of British social policy from 1830 to 1950 is really two separate stories joined together in the years immediately before the Great War. The first is a tale of increasing stinginess toward the poor by the central and local governments, while the second is the story of the construction of a national safety net, culminating in the Beveridge Report and Labour's social policies of 1946–48. The prototype for the welfare reforms of the twentieth century cannot be found in the Victorian Poor Law. The chapter then offers some thoughts regarding the reasons for the shifts in social welfare policy from the 1830s to the 1940s.

Genius Loci

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Jonah Raskin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Jack London ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road

This essay takes a literary journey to Jack London State Historic Park, the National Steinbeck Center, and the Beat Museum. An exploration of the shrines that are devoted to writers and which attract readers from around the world as well as close to home, the essay explores California’s identity as a cultural destination for tourists as well as for natives of the Golden State. By linking specific geographical places, such as Glen Ellen, Salinas, and San Francisco to books and to their authors, California’s literary shrines weave a kind of cultural magic that transcends time and place and invigorates twentieth-century classics such as Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Jack London’s The Iron Heel.

The Road to the Bible Belt

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Locke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Bible Belt ◽  
Religious Attitudes ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Witch Trials

By the turn of the twentieth century, a cohort of clerical activists, plagued by notions of a widespread spiritual crisis, realized that religious authority in public life could be bolstered by the construction of new and powerful denominational bureaucracies, the pursuit of moral reforms such as prohibition, and by tackling head on the widely held anticlerical fears confronting religious activism in public life. Activists such as Methodist minister George C. Rankin would learn, for instance, that reclaiming historical memory—abolishing hostile associations with witch trials and inquisitions–could convince more and more Texans that government could—and should—be run along religious lines. Moral reform was only the most public manifestation of a brewing clerical movement that targeted the popular religious attitudes of everyday southerners to enable the construction of the Bible Belt.

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