Alexandra Smith

Search results

• 2022

  Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship

  Smith, A. (ed.) & Sobolev, O. (ed.), 28 Apr 2022, (Accepted/In press) Edinburgh University Press. 272 p. (Film Studies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Dialogism 100%
  • Film Adaptation 94%
  • Anglophone 83%
  • Filmmaker 74%
  • Authorship 70%

• Narrating eccentricity: The ZhZL biographies of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva

  Smith, A., 15 Mar 2022, Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses. Trigos, L. A. & Ueland, C. (eds.). New York and London: Lexington Books, p. 231-252 21 p. (Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Anna Akhmatova 100%
  • Marina Tsvetaeva 98%
  • Eccentricity 82%
  • Post-Soviet 69%
• 2021

  [Review of] Moss, Anne Eakin. Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940

  Smith, A., 31 Oct 2021, In: Slavonic and east european review. 99, 4, p. 745-747

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• [Review of] Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover. Dostoevsky and the Realists: Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy. New York: Peter Lang, 2019

  Smith, A., Jul 2021, In: The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review. 22, 1, p. 193-195 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2020

  [Review of] "H. G. Wells and All Things Russian,’ edited by Galya Diment. The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, no.43, 2020, pp.115-18.

  Smith, A., 1 Oct 2020, In: The Wellsian: The Journal of H.G. Wells Society. 43, p. 115-118 3 p., 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991

  Hodgson, K. & Smith, A., 28 Feb 2020, Oxford: Peter Lang. 520 p. (Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • National Identity 100%
  • Cultural Memory 78%
  • Canon 61%
  • Religious Poetry 54%
  • War Poetry 52%

• [Review of] Gary Rosenshield. Challenging the Bard: Dostoevsky and Pushkin. A Study of a Literary Relationship. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 in: The Pushkin Review, volume 21, 2019.

  Smith, A., 2 Jan 2020, In: Pushkin Review. 21, p. 233-34 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2019

  Adaptation as interpretation: Petr Fomenko's Egyptian Nights

  Smith, A., 1 Oct 2019, Служив отлично благородно/ Having served excellently, nobly. Festschrift for Sander Brouwer.. Noordenbos, B. & Boele, O. (eds.). Amsterdam: Pegasus, p. 173-194 22 p. (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies; no. 33).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Egyptians 100%
  • Night 98%
  • Self-reflexivity 25%
  • Classical Literature 23%
  • Polyphonic 21%

• Alexandra Smith. A review of Tatiana Shemetova's book "Pushkin v russkoi literature XX vela", SEEJ, volume 62, 4, Winter 2019, pp.765-766. A review of Shemetova's book "Pushkin in Russian 20th-c. literature"

  Smith, A., 28 Feb 2019, In: Slavic and East European Journal. 62, 4, p. 765-766 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• 2018

  The Kreutzer Sonata, sexual morality and music

  Smith, A., Nov 2018, Tolstoy and Spirituality. Cicovacki, P. & Nada Grek, H. (eds.). Boston: Academic Studies Press, p. 109-127 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Sexual Morality 100%
  • Leo Tolstoy 86%
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven 84%
  • Music 75%
  • Literary Works 32%

• The transgressive capacity of the comic: A merry death as an embodiment of Nikolai Evreinov’s vision of theatricality

  Smith, A., 2 Jul 2018, In: Modern Language Review. 113, 3, p. 583-609 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Embodiment 100%
  • Theatricality 94%
  • 1910s 91%
  • Modernist 66%
  • 1920s 61%

• Agitprop

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Estrangement

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Formalism

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Living newspaper

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Objectivism

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Proletkult

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Structuralism

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• The Neo-Pagans

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• The October Circle

  Smith, A., 16 Jan 2018, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Kolocotroni, V. & Taxidou, O. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• 2017

  Constructing the modernist vision of time: Tsvetaeva’s rendering of Bely’s dynamic worldview in ‘A Captive Spirit'

  Smith, A., 31 Dec 2017, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 31, 1-2, p. 7-47

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Marina Tsvetaeva 100%
  • World View 77%
  • Captive 71%
  • worldview 65%
  • Rendering 60%

• Reconfiguring the canon: The changing contexts of twentieth-century Russian poetry

  Smith, A. & Wells, D. N., 23 Nov 2017, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 31, 1-2, p. 1-6 5 p., 0.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Reconfiguring the canon: The changing contexts of twentieth-century Russian poetry

  Smith, A. (ed.) & Wells, D. (ed.), 1 Nov 2017, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 31, 1-2, 263 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Russian Poetry 100%
  • poetry 78%
  • twentieth century 59%
  • Canon 57%
  • Poetry 45%

• Review of: Andrei Zorin. “Poiavlenie geroia: Iz istorii russkoi emotsional’noi kul’tury kontsa XVIII–nachala XIX veka” (Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016), Laboratorium, 9 (1), 2017, pp. 127-129.

  Smith, A., 30 Apr 2017, In: Laboratorium. 9, 1, p. 127-132

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Modern Identity 100%
  • Russian Writers 92%
  • 18th Century 87%
  • Diary 84%
  • Forge 73%

• Marina Tsvetaeva’s images of the Mother of God in the context of Russian cultural developments in the 1910s-20s

  Smith, A., 24 Apr 2017, Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture. Singleton Adams, A. & Shevzov, V. (eds.). DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, p. 144-162 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Marina Tsvetaeva 100%
  • Mother of God 91%
  • 1910s 75%
  • Cultural Development 72%
  • Poetics 46%

• Introduction. Twentieth-century Russian poetry and the Post-Soviet reader: Reinventing the canon

  Smith, A. & Hodgson, K., 23 Apr 2017, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry : Reinventing the Canon. Smith, A., Hodgson, K. & Shelton, J. (eds.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, p. 1-42 41 p. 1

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The post-Soviet homecoming of first-wave Russian émigré poets and its impact on the reinvention of the past

  Smith, A., 23 Apr 2017, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon. Hodgson, K., Shelton, J. & Smith, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, p. 355-392 37 p. 12

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Marina Tsvetaeva 100%
  • Russian Poet 94%
  • Homecoming 84%
  • Post-Soviet 70%
  • Waves 51%

• Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon

  Hodgson, K. (ed.), Shelton, J. (ed.) & Smith, A. (ed.), 20 Apr 2017, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 512 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  Open Access

  File

  • Russian Poetry 100%
  • Canon 57%
  • Russian Literature 17%
  • Iosif Brodskii 15%
  • Emigration 15%

• Reconfiguring the Soviet canon: Russian twentieth-century poetry in new contexts

  Smith, A. & Wells, D., 1 Jan 2017, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 31, 1-2, p. vii -xii 5 p., 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

  • 20th-century Poetry 100%
  • poetry 74%
  • twentieth century 56%
  • Canon 54%

• The Changing Canons of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Special Issue on Russian Poetry edited by Alexandra Smith and David N. Wells

  Smith, A. (ed.) & Wells, D. (ed.), 1 Jan 2017, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 31, 1-2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2016

  Elegicheskie motive v rannei lirike D. Bobysheva

  Translated title of the contribution: The elegiac themes in the early poetry of D. BobyshevSmith, A., 30 Dec 2016, In: Sviaz' vermen. Almanakh–ezhegodnik.. 2016, 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Anna Akhmatova 100%
  • Elegies 84%
  • 1980s 47%
  • 1960s 44%
  • Poetry 43%

• Marina Cvetaeva in the artistic imagination of Russian poets of the 1960s-1990s

  Smith, A., 14 Nov 2016, A Companion to Marina Cvetaeva: Approaches to a Major Russian Poet. Forrester, S. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 239-270 31 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• The muse of lament or the muse of compassion? The reception of Anna Akhmatova in Great Britain

  Smith, A., 10 Mar 2016, Anna Akhmatova et la poésie européenne: Edited by Tatiana Victoroff. Victoroff, T. (ed.). Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 265-293 28 p. (Nouvelle poétique comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics; vol. 36).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Anna Akhmatova 100%
  • Muse 75%
  • Lament 70%
  • Compassion 64%
  • Translator 54%

• The Review of: Chandler, Robert; Dralyuk, Boris; Mashinski, Irina, editors. The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, London: Penguin, 2015, Scotland Russia Review, No.34, Spring, 2016, p.12.

  Smith, A., 26 Jan 2016, In: Scotland Russia Review. 34, Spring , p. 12 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  Open Access

• Lev Tolstoy in the age of Kinoglanost: Mikhail Shveitser's The Kreutzer Sonata as a critique of Russian erotic Utopia and Soviet ideology

  Smith, A., 1 Jan 2016, In: Australian Slavonic & East European Studies. 29, 1-2, p. 31-61 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Utopia 100%
  • Soviet Ideology 97%
  • Film Adaptation 83%
  • utopia 81%
  • Leo Tolstoy 81%

• Review of Kukulin, Il'ia. Mashiny zashumevshego vremeni: Kak sovetskii monyazh stal metodom neofitsial'noi kul'tury

  Smith, A., 2016, In: Laboratorium. 3, p. 188-190 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Moscow 100%
• 2015

  Anastasiia Tsvetaeva (1894-1993) as a Gulag writer

  Smith, A., 17 Nov 2015, In: Gulag Studies. 7-8, p. 28-49 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2014

  Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest by Costlow, Jane T. Review by: Alexandra Smith

  Smith, A., 3 Oct 2014, In: Slavonic and east european review. 92, 4, p. 765-767 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice by Morris, Paul D. Review by: Alexandra Smith

  Smith, A., 3 Oct 2014, In: Slavonic and east european review. 92, 4, p. 748-750 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Publications and an application form related to a postdoctoral fellowship in Belgium

  Smith, A., 12 Feb 2014

  Research output: Other contribution

• 2013

  Pushkin as a Cultural Myth: Dostoevskii's Pushkin Speech and Its Legacy in Russian Modernism

  Smith, A., 19 Dec 2013, Dostoevskii's Overcoat: Influence, Comparison, and Transposition. Andrew, J. & Reid, R. (eds.). New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 123-147

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Review of Vera Tolz's book Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

  Smith, A., Jun 2013, Europe-Asia Studies, 65, 4, p. 783-784.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• The Transcendent Power of the Image: Marina Cvetaeva's Vision of Russian Icons and the Mother of God in the 1910s - early 1920s

  Smith, A., 15 May 2013, In: Russian Literature. 73, 4, p. 539–563

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Russian Icons 100%
  • Marina Tsvetaeva 89%
  • Mother of God 81%
  • 1910s 68%
  • Transcendent 58%

• Silver Age Studies: The State of the Field

  Smith, A., Seifrid, T. (ed.) & Condee, N., Apr 2013, The AATSEEL Newsletter, 56, 2, p. 2-3.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  Open Access

  File

• Consuming Utopian Thought in an Anti-Utopian Age: The Reception of Andrej Platonovʼs Čevengur in Todayʼs Russia

  Smith, A., 2013, In: Russian Literature. 73, 1/2, p. 209-227

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Marina Tsvetaeva's memoir on Maksimilian Voloshin in the context of artistic and intellectual trends of the 1910s-30s

  Smith, A., 2013, In: Wiener Slawisticher Almanach. 71, p. 189-210

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Review of Galya Diment's book A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky

  Smith, A., 2013, Katherina Mansfield and the (Post)colonial. Wilson, J., Kimber, G. & da Sousa Correa, D. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 203-205

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

• Searching for a New Self: Truth-telling and Double Vision in Joseph Brodsky's Essay 'In a Room and a Half' (1985)

  Smith, A., 2013, In: AvtobiografiЯ. 2, Part 1, p. 152-169

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2012

  Pisateli–eto mediumy.

  Smith, A., 11 Oct 2012

  Research output: Other contribution

  File

• Vremia pridet: Interv'iu s Dmitriem Bobyshevym

  Translated title of the contribution: The Time Will Come: An Interview with Dmitrii BobyshevSmith, A. & Reznik, R. (ed.), May 2012, In: Sviaz' bremen: Almanakh-Ezhegodnik.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review