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Author:   Irina Shevelenko
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780299320409

ISBN 10:   0299320405
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Demonstrates the ways Russian writers aspired to move beyond art--to work for the social, physical, and spiritual transformation of individual and communal life, to make life 'new' and 'modern.' --Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley A timely and fascinating reappraisal of Russian modernism, not limited to aesthetic concerns. The end result is a new Russian modernism intricately intertwined with the processes of modernity itself. --Jenifer Presto, University of Oregon

Demonstrates the ways Russian writers aspired to move beyond art- to work for the social, physical, and spiritual transformation of individual and communal life, to make life 'new' and 'modern.'"""" - Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley """"A timely and fascinating reappraisal of Russian modernism, not limited to aesthetic concerns. The end result is a new Russian modernism intricately intertwined with the processes of modernity itself."""" - Jenifer Presto, University of Oregon

A timely and fascinating reappraisal of Russian modernism, not limited to aesthetic concerns. The end result is a new Russian modernism intricately intertwined with the processes of modernity itself. --Jenifer Presto, University of Oregon Demonstrates the ways Russian writers aspired to move beyond art--to work for the social, physical, and spiritual transformation of individual and communal life, to make life 'new' and 'modern.' --Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley

Author Information

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.

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