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Rosina Neginsky

Born: in St. Petersburg, Russia
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Neginsky lives in Springfield, Illinois. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Biography: Rosinga Neginsky was educated in Paris, France. She is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, where she teaches Comparative Literature and Art History. Her area of expertise is English, French and Russian art and literature between 1850 and 1920. A Literary Ambassador between East and West, of numerous articles on Russian and European artists, poets and writers and of several books of poetry. She is the president and founder of the international interdisciplinary organization Art, Literature, Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), and the editor of the volume ''Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences''. She has received several awards from the National Endowment for Humanities and IREX, and is a 2008 recipient of the University Scholar Award, the most prestigious award which the University of Illinois gives to members of the faculty.


Awards:
  • Neginsky was honored at the 2005 Illinois Authors Book Fair sponsored by the Illinois Center for the Book and the Illinois State Library in Springfield, Illinois.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: rnegi1@uis.edu
Website: http://www.uis.edu/liberalstudies/faculty/neginsky/
Rosina Neginsky on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=rosina++neginsky


Selected Titles

  Dans le jardin du Luxembourg :
ISBN: 2343051348 OCLC: 917136979

L'Harmattan, Paris : 2015.

  Juggler :
ISBN: 1931948771 OCLC: 515296505

University Press of the South, New Orleans, La. : 2009.

  Mental illnesses in symbolism
ISBN: 9781443891264 OCLC: 1043385897

  Pod svetom luny =
ISBN: 1930308523 OCLC: 51820756

Izd-vo Slovo-Word, Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork : 2002.

Salome :
ISBN: 9781443869621 OCLC: 896838823

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 art, literature, theology and music played ...

  Sergei Chepik :
ISBN: 9781616236182 OCLC: 642625292

Benedictine University at Springfield, Springfield, Ill. : ©2009.

Symbolism, its origins and its consequences /
ISBN: 1443823929 OCLC: 847618270

Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne : 2010.

The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L'Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going f ...

  Zinaida Vengerova--in search of beauty :
ISBN: 3631547226 OCLC: 65207165

P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main ; 2006.

 

 

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