Sofia Permiakova

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Sofia Permiakova is a scholar based in Berlin. Sofia recently completed her doctoral thesis on contemporary Anglophone women’s war writing at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin. Her new project, titled “Huge Bears Softly Dancing: Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees Translating Russia in the 1920s,” deals with Anglo-Russian literary networks and collaborative translations from Russian into English.

Contributions

“The Russian Trace”: Connecting Paris: A Poem to Russian Modernism

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Hope Mirrlees and Jane Harrison’s interest and affection for the Russian language, literature, and Russian émigré authors is well documented—though hardly unusual for Britons during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. [1] Following 1917 and the turmoil of the civil war, Europe welcomed “an influx of artists and intellectuals” fleeing from these “seemingly apocalyptic events” (Schwinn-Smith, “Bears in Bloomsbury,” 121). These people were seen as an entry point into the tumultuous and...

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