Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence - Iconizing Emotion By Blending Time, Media, and the Senses

This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links between symbolist poetry, paintings, and cinema and their evoked sensory-emotional imagery in the context of iconicity and conceptual blending.

List of contents

Introduction: Symbolist Arts as Forms Symbolic of Human Feeling
Chapter One: Liquescence: The Master Metaphor for Blending Strategies
Chapter Two: In Boundlessness: The Ocean of Surging Emotion in Konstantin Bal'mont's Cognitive Poetics
Chapter Three: Quiet Flows the Soul across the Boundless and Beyond: Viktor Borisov-Musatov's Symbolist Painting
Chapter Four: Symbolism in Flux: The Moving Image as Transcendent Emotion
Afterword: ¿he Dying Swan: The Transcendent Body Image on Symbolist Screen

About the author

Anastasia Kostetskaya is assistant professor of Russian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Summary

This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links between symbolist poetry, paintings, and cinema and their evoked sensory-emotional imagery in the context of iconicity and conceptual blending.

Product details

• Authors: Anastasia Kostetskaya
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498591829
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9182-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context; Crosscurrents: Russia's Litera; Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, Literature: history & criticism, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet