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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anastasia Kostetskaya
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498591829
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9182-9
• Pagine: 184
• Serie: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context; Crosscurrents: Russia's Litera; Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Russia, Literature: history & criticism, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet