We Congratulate Dr. Alexander Burry on his Promotion to Full Professor!
At the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, we believe we have some of the best faculty at the University. Today, we have another reason to celebrate that fact!
Join us in giving our Dr. Alex Burry a warm congratulations on his promotion from Associate to Full Professor. Dr. Burry is a beloved member of our Department, giving our students new insights into Russian and Slavic literature every semester.
For more information on Dr. Burry, see our "People" page. See below information on Dr. Burry's new book!
Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature, by Alexander Burry (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023)
The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia’s most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in 1830, The Stone Guest is now recognized, with other Pushkin masterpieces, as part of the Russian literary canon. Alexander Burry traces the influence of Pushkin’s brilliant innovations to the legend, which he shows have proven repeatedly fruitful through successive ages of Russian literature, from the Realist to the Silver Age, Soviet, and contemporary periods. Burry shows that, rather than creating a simple retelling of an originally religious tale about a sinful, consummate seducer, Pushkin offered open-ended scenes, re-envisioned and complicated characters, and new motifs that became recursive and productive parts of Russian literature, in ways that even Pushkin himself could never have predicted.
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