Three Russian Writers And The Irrational

Author : T. R. N. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109857
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Three Russian Writers and the Irrational written by T. R. N. Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers, including the three important Soviet writers considered by Dr Edwards in this book. Since the 1917 Revolution the polemic between rationalists and irrationalists has become directly relevant to the way life is lived in the Soviet Union, and a knowledge of the irrationalist point of view is essential for an understanding of much of Soviet literature and of the foundations of Soviet dissidence. As with other titles in this series, this book is not intended simply for the specialist. The broad speculations arising from the subject will fascinate all those who take a serious interest in the Russian literary tradition; a tradition whose principal figures have been concerned to reject philosophical and political creeds that, in seeking to produce a perfect human being in a perfect society, point in fact towards a vision of hell.

Author : Olga Tabachnikova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501324748
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky written by Olga Tabachnikova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even admired, though not sufficiently investigated. Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as language and the linguistic underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national consciousness; the changing relationship between love and morality; the cultural roots of humour, as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311122
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a versatile approach to the enigmatic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism of the last two hundred years and beyond. The 23 chapters look at diverse artistic and cultural forms, including Russian philosophy, theology, literature, music and visual arts.

Author : Amy C. Singleton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438420188
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noplace Like Home written by Amy C. Singleton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noplace Like Home uses four masterpieces of Russian literature--Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, Evgenii Zamiatin's We, and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita--to show the successes and failings in Russia's search for home and self. Interdisciplinary in spirit, Noplace Like Home introduces Russian culture for the first time to the field of "home studies," which explores human identity in terms of man's relationship with domestic space. This broad social context, together with general cultural patterns expressed in the novels, encourages readers to consider even the most current events in Russian society--where identity and stability are again key issues--in terms of "home," "homelessness," and "noplace."

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260776
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reference Guide to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828231
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature written by Evgeny Dobrenko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873850
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature written by Jonathan Stone and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres that have formed Russian Literature. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian literature.

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521481090
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution written by Efraim Sicher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an innovative and controversial study of how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled in very different ways to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook, and social or ideological pressures. Efraim Sicher also explores the broader context of the literature and art of the Jewish avant-garde in the years immediately preceding and following the Russian Revolution. By comparing literary texts and the visual arts the author reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change. This study contributes to our knowledge of an important aspect of modern Russian writing and will be of interest to both Jewish scholars and those concerned with Slavonic studies.

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521552585
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Russian Literature written by Rosalind J. Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards.

Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621793
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance written by Rachel Polonsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time of great receptivity to foreign cultural influences. Among the most important of these were English poetry and aesthetic thought, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination. This 1998 book is a study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism, focusing particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these influences in comparative scholarship, illuminating a common interest in myth, folklore, anthropology, and the origins of language. This book discusses the relationship between Russian conceptions of national identity, literary influence and the origins of comparative literary history.