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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance

English · Hardback

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Klappentext The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism. Zusammenfassung This1998 book is a study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism focuses particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley! Ruskin! Pater! Frazer and Wilde! which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; 1. Museum people; Part I. The Barbaric Renaissance: 2. Rites of spring; 3. Balmont's Shelley and the sacred books of the East; 4. Edgar Allan Poe and the magic of words; Part II. The Aesthetic Renaissance: 5. The renaissance of the renaissance; 6. English Aestheticism and Blok's apocalypse; 7. How important it is to be serious: Oscar Wilde's popularity; 8. Kuzmin's English style; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Authors Rachel Polonsky
Assisted by Anthony Cross (Editor), Anthony Professor Cross (Editor), Catriona Kelly (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.11.1998
 
EAN 9780521621793
ISBN 978-0-521-62179-3
No. of pages 266
Series Cambridge Studies in Russian L
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies

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