English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Polonsky, Polonsky Rachel, Polonsky Rachel
• Assisted by: Catriona Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027472
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02747-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet