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Author:   Leonid Livak
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780299319342

ISBN 10:   0299319342
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Table of Contents

Introduction Leonid Livak On Translating Petersburg, John Elsworth Part One. The Intellectual Context Revolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in Petersburg, Lynn E. Patyk Petersburg and Modern Occultism, Maria Carlson Petersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism, Edith W. Clowes Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg, Timothy Langen Petersburg and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Hilary Fink Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology, Judith Wermuth-Atkinson Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought, Henrietta Mondry Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction, David M. Bethea Part Two. The Aesthetic Context Petersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature, Steven Cassedy Theatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Colleen McQuillen Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words, Olga Matich Petersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist Novel, Taras Koznarsky Petersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction, Violeta Sotirova Aids for Reading and Studying Petersburg An Annotated Synopsis, Leonid Livak Recommended Critical Literature in English Index

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The fifteen distinguished contributors do more than elucidate a world-class novel. They provide capsule courses on a spectrum of topics that mattered deeply to Andrei Bely but are obscure to many readers today: anthroposophy, neoKantianism, 'life-creation,' racial thinking, political terrorism. A path-breaking literary portal. - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Succeeds in making a challenging modernist novel more accessible to nonspecialists. Students and fans of Bely's work at every level will appreciate this fine and informative critical companion to Petersburg. - Emily Johnson, author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself A timely and useful guide for those reading and teaching Bely's brilliant modernist novel. This volume makes Bely's fascinating masterpiece more accessible to those outside Russian studies. - Choice

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Leonid Livak is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His books include In Search of Russian Modernism and The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination.

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