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Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2020). Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes. In T. Boes, R. Braun, & E. Spiers (Eds.), World Authorship (46-59). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198819653.013.4

Eastern Europe has been provocatively defined as ‘that part of the world where serious literature and those who produce it have traditionally been overvalued’ (Baruch Wachtel Remaining Relevant after Communism (2006)). This situation arose because of... Read More about Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes.

Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World Literature (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2020). Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World Literature. In K. Seigneurie, W. Denecke, I. L. Ramelli, C. Chism, C. Lupke, E. Nicoll-Johnson, …B. V. Mani (Eds.), A companion to world literature. John Wiley and Sons

'"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult' (2017)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2017). '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'. In K. Hodgson, A. Smith, & J. Shelton (Eds.), Twentieth-century Russian poetry : reinventing the canon (63-93). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0076.03

This chapter argues that Akhmatova's pre-eminent status in the contemporary canon rests not only on poetic talent but on extra-literary factors and processes which have elevated her to a form of secular sainthood. It explores the role played by biogr... Read More about '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'.

Anna Akhmatova (2012)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2012). Anna Akhmatova. In S. M. Norris, & W. Sunderland (Eds.), Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia 1500 to the Present (255-263). Indiana University Press