Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts

Klappentext An account of the interplay between literary and visual culture in the Russian modernist era. Zusammenfassung In the Russian modernist era! literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms! particularly the visual arts. This collection of essays by leading British! American and Russian scholars! first published in 2000! draws on a rich variety of material to demonstrate the creative power of Russian culture 'on the boundaries' between genres. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: boundaries of the spectacular Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell; Part I. The Arts Reflected in Literature: 1. Defining the face: observations on Dostoevskii's creative processes Konstantin Barsht; 2. Painting and autobiography: Anna Prismatova's Pesok and Anna Akhmatova's Epicheskie motivy; 3. Picture windows: the art of Andrei Siniavskii Jane Grayson; 4. Mikhail Zoshchenko's shadow operas Alexander Zholkovsky; Part II. Adaptations, Collaborations, Disputes and Rapprochements: Russian Literature, Visual Arts, and Performance: 5. 'Theatricality' as a concept in the Russian modernist movement; 6. Design on drama: Chekhov and Simov Cynthia Marsh; Khlebnikov eye Robin Milner-Gulland; 8. Cinematic literature and literary cinema: Olesha, Room and the search for a new art form Milena Michalski; 9. Meaningful voids: facelessness in Platov and Malevich Andrew Wachtel; 10. Painted mirrors: landscape and self-representation in women's verbal and visual art Pamela Chester; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Catriona Kelly, Catriona (New College Kelly, Catriona Lovell Kelly
• Assisted by: Catriona Kelly (Editor), Kelly Catriona (Editor), Stephen Lovell (Editor), Lovell Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521087902
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08790-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet