Reframing Russian Modernism

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-299-32040-9
Verlag: The University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Presenting a multifaceted portrait of modernist culture in Russia, an array of distinguished scholars shows how artists and writers in the early twentieth century engaged with politics, science, and religion. At a time when many Russian social institutions looked to the past, modernist arts powerfully amplified a gamut of new ideas about individual and collective transformation.

Expanding upon prior studies that focus more specifically on literary manifestations of the movement, Reframing Russian Modernism features original research that ranges broadly, from political aesthetics to Darwinism to yoga. These unique complementary perspectives counter reductionism of any kind, integrating the study of Russian modernism into the larger body of humanistic scholarship devoted to modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shevelenko, Irina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction. Russian Modernist Studies: A Centennial Perspective
- Irina Shevelenko
- Part I. Concepts in Flux
- 1 The Terminological Labyrinth of Russian Modernist Studies
- Leonid Livak
- Part II. Aesthetics and Pragmatics
- 2 Shifting Time-Frames and Metaphorical Spaces: Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian Modernism, and the Classical Past
- Judith Kalb
- 3 Pan-Slavism Redux, or Speaking Russian in Modernist Tongues
- Irina Shevelenko
- 4 Arranging the Absolute: On One of Russian Modernism’s Legacies in the Stalin Era
- Thomas Seifrid
- Part III. Science and Medicine
- 5 Darwin and Russian Modernism
- David Bethea
- 6 The Discourse of Sexual Psychopathy in Russian Modernism
- Evgenii Bershtein
- 7 Civilization, Irony, Neurasthenia: Anti-Semitic Discourse in the Writings of Aleksandr Blok
- Arkadii Blumbaum
- Part IV. Religion and Spirituality
- 8 Religion, Secularism, and Modernist Culture in Russia: The Case of Aleksandr Dobroliubov
- Thomas H. Tabatowski
- 9 Russian Modernity Meets Yoga
- J. Alexander Ogden
- Contributors
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irina Shevelenko is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of two books published in Russian, Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic in Russia and Tsvetaeva's Literary Path: Ideology, Poetics, and Identity of the Author in the Context of the Epoch.