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Russian modernism : the transfiguration of the everyday /

This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt eme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hutchings, Stephen C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Russian literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life
  • The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature
  • Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday
  • Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess
  • The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and the christened chinaman
  • Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy
  • At the "I" of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's whirlwind Russia.