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