The Modernist Mirror and the Hold of Being: Rilke and Zamiatin

The article approaches the image of the mirror as a metaphorical vehicle for the experience of modernity in the work of Rainer Maria Rilke and Evgenii Zamiatin. The argument builds upon a duality that informs the folkloric and artistic representations of mirrors from ancient to modern times: that be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petre Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol34/iss2/5