Poetry and Psychiatry Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described in Bely's powerful prose masterpiece Petersburg, which serves as the connec...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA
Academic Studies Press
2014
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| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described in Bely's powerful prose masterpiece Petersburg, which serves as the connective thread and recurrent point of reference throughout this collection. Written in the early 1910s, just before the world war that was to culminate in the so-called October Revolution, Bely's novel portrays the collective experience of the Symbolists as an attempted political parricide. Many of the essays included in this volume are appearing in English for the first time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781618113696;9781618113610;9781618119360 j.ctt1zxsj5p |
| Access: | Open Access |