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Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was
Title: Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome: Nymph, Seducer, DestroyerPublished by: Cambridge Scholars PublishingRelease Date: August 2013Contributors: Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-1-4438-4621-9ASIN: B011820WJWBuy the Book: Cambridge Scholars PublishingAmazon.fr Although the root of the Hebrew name “Salome” is “peaceful”, the image spawned by the most famous woman to carry that name has been anything but peaceful. She and her story have long been linked to the beheading of John the Baptist, as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, since Salome was the supposed catalyst for the prophet’s execution. This history of the myth of Salome describes the process by which that myth was created, the roles that…
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Zinaida Vengerova–In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador Between East and West
Title: Zinaida Vengerova--In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador Between East and WestPublished by: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenRelease Date: 2nd edition, January 2006Contributors: Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-3631547229Buy the Book: Barnes & NobleAmazonIn this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and she used her profound understanding of these different currents of Symbolism to fashion for herself an ambassadorial role between Western Europe…
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Juggler. A Bilingual English-Russian Edition of Poems.
Title: Juggler. A Bilingual English-Russian Edition of Poems.Published by: University Press of the SouthRelease Date: April 2009Contributors: Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-1931948777Buy the Book: AmazonBarnes & NobleA magnificent book of poetry, in which the author explores love, hatred, sorrow, beauty, and ugliness in our lives. Fundamental for English and American Studies. Essential for Russian Studies. [reviews]
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In the garden of Luxembourg
Title: Dans le jardin du Luxembourg: In the garden of LuxembourgPublished by: Editions L'HarmattanRelease Date: French edition, January 2015Contributors: Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-2343051345Buy the Book: AmazonBarnes & NobleIn this collection of poems, Rosina Neginsky reveals concepts and images that shimmer and captivate us. In her poetic universe, love and death coexiste; fairy tales play an important role: grey wolves, mermaids, tsarinas who rule over islands appear in her poems. The ekphrastic poems inspired by the pictorial works, and literary poems inspired by literary images, are enriched by the presence of free associations, legends, and the intense emotions of the interior life of the poems' lyrical hero. Several make a reference to…
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Under the Light of the Moon: Poems
Title: Under the Light of the Moon: PoemsPublished by: Slovo-WordRelease Date: January 2002Contributors: Rosina NezhinskayaISBN13: 978-1930308527Buy the Book: Amazon
Professor of art history and comparative literature