ISO of poker/playing card vocab

[Peter Sekirin]

Just a thought:

Card vocabulary / the symolism of card game was am important part of
RUSSIAN CULTURE and IS DESCRIBED IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE:

-Queen of Spades
-Hero ot Our Time (Chapter "Fatalist")
-Gamblers  (Igroki) by Gogol
-Dva Husara and several key chapters from Anna Karenina
as well as works by P. Viazemsky, Sukhovo-Kobylin, Sumarokov...

For a more sophisticated card vocabulary/card habits
IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
please have a look at
"Kard Game" in BESEDY O RUSSKOI KUL'TURE by Lotman,
St. Petersburg, 1997, p.136-164. and
"Simvolika kart" in O IAZYKE KHUD.PROZY by V.Vinogradov.M,1980,p.191-203.
or contact me off-list.

Peter Sekirin                   <psekirin at chass.utoronto.ca>
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