Reframing Russian Modernism
Published on 30. December 2018
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-299-32040-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
3 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-32040-9 (9780299320409)
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Person
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.
Content
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
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