Author: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801483318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture
Author: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801483318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801483318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
Russian Literature and Its Demons
Author: Pamela Davidson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571817587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian literary demonism has so far received little critical attention. This substantial collection fills the gap. A comprehensive analytical introduction by the editor is follwed by a series of fourteen essays, written by eminent scholars in their fields. The first part explores the main shaping contexts of literary demonism: the Russian Orthodox and folk tradition, the demonization of historical figures, and views of art as intrinsically demonic. The second part traces the development of a literary tradition of demonism in the works of authors ranging from Pushkin and Lermontov, Gogol and Dostoevsky, through to the poets and prose writers of modernism (including Blok, Akhmatova, Bely, Sologub, Rozanov, Zamiatin), and through to the end of the 20th century.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571817587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian literary demonism has so far received little critical attention. This substantial collection fills the gap. A comprehensive analytical introduction by the editor is follwed by a series of fourteen essays, written by eminent scholars in their fields. The first part explores the main shaping contexts of literary demonism: the Russian Orthodox and folk tradition, the demonization of historical figures, and views of art as intrinsically demonic. The second part traces the development of a literary tradition of demonism in the works of authors ranging from Pushkin and Lermontov, Gogol and Dostoevsky, through to the poets and prose writers of modernism (including Blok, Akhmatova, Bely, Sologub, Rozanov, Zamiatin), and through to the end of the 20th century.
Free Russia
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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The Temptation of Non-Being
Author: Artemy Magun
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350430005
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? The Temptation of Non-Being uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory of art as a medium of complex negativity. The negative in art is explained not as a simple negation or destruction, but as a multifaceted, polymorphous structure with a vast range of strategies and techniques from parody and pastiche to defamiliarization and non-resemblance. Charting the depth of these negative practices, Artemy Magun shows how they become progressively more complex and explicit, illustrating them with interdisciplinary examples from Lars von Trier, Jacek Malczewski, Andrei Platonov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. At the heart of this layered, nested structure lies an understanding of Modern aesthetics that helps to answer even more questions: how can the testing, probing nature of art lead to this preoccupation with the negative? Why does this negativity emerge in the first place? What can it tell us about art itself and how it functions in society? This is an erudite and provocative analysis that enriches the ongoing evaluation of both 'high' and 'low' art.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350430005
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? The Temptation of Non-Being uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory of art as a medium of complex negativity. The negative in art is explained not as a simple negation or destruction, but as a multifaceted, polymorphous structure with a vast range of strategies and techniques from parody and pastiche to defamiliarization and non-resemblance. Charting the depth of these negative practices, Artemy Magun shows how they become progressively more complex and explicit, illustrating them with interdisciplinary examples from Lars von Trier, Jacek Malczewski, Andrei Platonov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. At the heart of this layered, nested structure lies an understanding of Modern aesthetics that helps to answer even more questions: how can the testing, probing nature of art lead to this preoccupation with the negative? Why does this negativity emerge in the first place? What can it tell us about art itself and how it functions in society? This is an erudite and provocative analysis that enriches the ongoing evaluation of both 'high' and 'low' art.
Darkest Russia
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Doctor Looks at Literature
Author: Joseph Collins
Publisher: Kennikat Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Kennikat Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Dramatic Index
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Dramatic Index for ...
Author: Frederick Winthrop Faxon
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
Annual Magazine Subject-index
Author: Frederick Winthrop Faxon
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Magazine Subject-index
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Contains the cumulation of the subject index issued in the quarterly numbers of the Bulletin of bibliography and magazine subject-index.
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Contains the cumulation of the subject index issued in the quarterly numbers of the Bulletin of bibliography and magazine subject-index.