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Metamorphoses in Russian modernism / edited by Peter I. Barta.

Title
Metamorphoses in Russian modernism / edited by Peter I. Barta.
Publication
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors
Barta, Peter I.
Description
186 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Examines metamorphoses in the works of prominent representatives of the divided Russian intelligentsia: the Symbolists; the most famous emigre writer, Nabokov; Olesha, the 'fellow traveller' attempting to find his place in the Soviet state; the enthusiastic poet of the Bolshevik movement, Mayakovsky; and finally, Russia's greatest film director, Sergei Eisenstein. It is futile to try to understand Russian civilisation let alone predict its future without considering the intellectual, social and emotional reasons why it is not at rest with itself. It is to this end that this volume hopes to make a contribution.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Russian literature and the metamorphic theme / Peter I. Barta -- Echo and Narcissus in Russian symbolism / Peter I. Barta -- The transformation myth in Russian modernism : Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotsky / Joan Delaney Grossman -- Pythagoras and the butterfly : Nabokov's Ovidian metamorphoses / David H.J. Larmour -- Ovidian intertexts in Olesha's 'The cherry stone' : the metamorphosis of metamorphosis / Stephen Hutchings -- Sansculotte improvisers and clouds in trousers : poetic metamorphosis in Pushkin and Mayakovsky / Irene Masing-Delic -- Savage thinking : metamorphosis in the cinema of S.M. Eisenstein / Anne Nesbet.
ISBN
  • 9639116904 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9639116912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00065591^
OCLC
  • 45420428
  • SCSB-12450924
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library