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Modernist Masquerade - Stylizing Life, Literature, and Costumes in Russia

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Colleen McQuillen is assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Klappentext Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerade's widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreev, Andrei Bely, Aleksandr Blok, and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political, cultural, and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence, Symbolism, and Futurism and with the era's artistic philosophies. Zusammenfassung Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind! The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works.

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Authors Colleen McQuillen
Publisher The University of Wisconsin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2013
 
EAN 9780299296148
ISBN 978-0-299-29614-8
No. of pages 224
Series Studies of the Harriman Instit
Studies of the Harriman Instit
Subject Humanities, art, music > History

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