Petersburg/petersburg - Novel and City, 1900-1921

Informationen zum Autor Olga Matich is professor of Russian literature and culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle , which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award and an honorable mention for the 2007 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association. Klappentext Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges here as a living organism, a dream world in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism. Zusammenfassung Since its founding three hundred years ago! the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers. From poetry and terrorist memoirs! photographs and artwork! maps and guidebooks of that period! the city emerges here as a living organism! a dream world in flux! and a junction of modernity and modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Matich, Olga (EDT) Matich
• Assisted by: Olga Matich (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2011
• EAN: 9780299236045
• ISBN: 978-0-299-23604-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies