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The article reviews several books including "The Invention of Pastel Painting," by Thea Burns, "Art on Paper: Mounting and Housing," edited by Judith Rayner, Joanna M.Kosek and Birthe Christensen, and "Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research," edited by Maria Hayward and Elizabeth Kramer.

The article reviews several books including "The Pickwick Papers," by Charles Dickens, "The Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford, and "Engleby," by Sebastian Faulks.

Reviews the book 'The Pickwick Papers,' by Charles Dickens, edited by James Kinsley.

Reviews the book 'Buba Leah and Her Paper Children,' by Lillian Hammer Ross.

Chloë Kitzinger's book, "Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel," offers new insights into the works of Lev Tolstoi and Fedor Dostoevskii. Kitzinger examines the techniques of mimetic characterization used by these authors in four major novels. The book explores how these authors create a "narrative illusion" of reality through their representation of characters and their relationships. Kitzinger's analysis sheds light on the development of mimetic narratives in European literature, particularly in the context of nineteenth-century Russian realism. The book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of Russian realism and offers innovative readings of canonical texts. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Le Chien d'or/The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec," written by William Kirby and edited by Mary Jane Edwards.

The aim of this paper is to explore the boundaries imposed over Hema and Kaushik, two second-generation diasporic characters who, despite being born in unfamiliar terrain and thus likely to flourish, consistently feel entangled between delusion, because they almost pathologically search for unattainable desires, and nostalgia and defeat in their personal pursuit of individual, familiar and social happiness, as well as the nourishing interconnectedness among the three dimensions in these stories. In this light, the correspondences and dead-ends in their meaningful quest for belonging and fulfillment as human beings acquire greater significance. The nuances, suggestive associations and contradictions inherent to their search are investigated and the special role of diaspora within the three stories is pondered. Lahiri probes the power of literature through these stories and endows the two characters’ failed relationship with universal significance by placing it in the realm of the possible, enacted through the act of reading. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Murakami's 2002 novel, Umibe no Kafka (translated by Philip Gabriel and published as Kafka on the Shore , 2005), is a psychoanalytical interrogation of the mind of a young, deeply disturbed patricide whose Oedipal crisis culminates in a descent to the pre-Oedipal, Kristevan ‘semiotic’ level of the unconscious in order to begin the healing process. This paper draws on psychoanalytic literary criticism along Kristevan lines in its focus on the young women in Kafka on the Shore , who, as in many of Murakami's novels, play important roles in the male protagonist's progress. Sakura comfortably belongs to the outside world ruled by the symbolic order, and her presence, along with the other strongly heterosexual character, Sada, provide the outer frame for Kafka's inner journey. The androgynous, uncannily insightful Ōshima, on the other hand, plays a central role in shaping Kafka's progress in his liminal journey towards psycho-sexual health, and is well served by a Kristevan analysis. However, both the liminal stage and the mainstream, ‘real’ space are dominated by a rather old-fashioned, Lacanian view of heterosexuality as the normal subjectivity, focusing on the male, homogeneous body as the ideal, limiting the applicability of the Kristevan approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem v dvadtsati trekh tomakh," by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', edited by Nikolai TIkhonravov, volumes I-V.

The article reviews the book "Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy," by Kåre Johan Mjør.

The article reviews the book "War & Peace: Contemporary Russian Prose," edited by Natasha Perova and Joanne Turnbull.

The article reviews the book "Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans 1185-1365," by István Vásáry.

The article reviews the book "Russkai Kolybel'naia v Fol'flore i Literature," by Valentin Golovin.