Russian Modernism - The Transfiguration of the Everyday

Zusammenfassung This book interprets the complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life! or byt! and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology! Stephen C. Hutchings offers provocative! yet careful! readings of key narrative texts from the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1. Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life; 2. The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature; Part II: 3. Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday; 4. Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess; Part III: 5. The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and The Christened Chinaman; 6. Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy; 7. At the 'I' of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's Whirlwind Russia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen C. Hutchings, Stephen C. (University of Surrey) Hutchings
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Cross (Editore), Anthony Professor Cross (Editore), Catriona Kelly (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024495
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02449-5
• Pagine: 316
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Russian L
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava