Russian Irrationalism From Pushkin To Brodsky

Author : Olga Tabachnikova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441102584

Get Book

Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky by Olga Tabachnikova Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004311121

Get Book

Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life by Anonim Pdf

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 : Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137549051

Get Book

The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union by Melanie Ilic Pdf

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and gender relations in the Soviet ‘East’ (Tatarstan), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Within the boundaries of the Russian Federation, the scope moves beyond the typically studied urban centres of Moscow and St Petersburg to examine the regions (Krasnodar, Novosibirsk), rural societies and village life. Its chapters examine the construction of gender identities and shifts in gender roles during the twentieth century, as well as the changing status and roles of women vis-a-vis men in Soviet political institutions, the workplace and society more generally. This volume draws on a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches currently being employed in the academic field of Russian studies. The origins of the individual contributions can be identified in a range of conventional subject disciplines – history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies – but the chapters also adopt a cross- and inter-disciplinary approach to the topic of study. This handbook therefore builds on and extends the foundations of Russian women’s and gender studies as it has emerged and developed in recent decades, and demonstrate the international, indeed global, reach of such research

Author : Andrea Oppo
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781644694695

Get Book

Lev Shestov by Andrea Oppo Pdf

This study spans the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938). It offers keys to understanding his thought, while also tracing the historical itinerary of his work. Shestov’s thought is not only interesting in itself, as a “philosophy fighting against philosophy,” but also because it reveals an entire world of cultural connections in its extraordinarily keen exploration of other “souls.” The reader will find in Shestov some of the sharpest analyses of authors such as Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Dostoevskii, Luther, Plotinus, Pascal, Kierkegaard and many others. This study will better determine the controversial and fascinating philosopher’s place in the history of Russian and Western thought.

Author : Yuri Corrigan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108901741

Get Book

Chekhov in Context by Yuri Corrigan Pdf

Premier playwright of modern theater and trailblazer of the short story, Anton Chekhov was also a practising doctor, journalist, writer of comic sketches, philanthropist and activist. This volume provides an accessible guide to Chekhov's multifarious interests and influences, with over 30 succinct chapters covering his rich intellectual milieu and his tumultuous socio-political environment, as well as the legacy of his work in over two centuries of interdisciplinary cultures and media around the world. With a Preface by Cornel West, a chronology and Further Reading list, this collection is the essential guide to Chekhov's writing and the manifold worlds he inhabited.

Author : Nicolas Dreyer
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783412500092

Get Book

Literature Redeemed by Nicolas Dreyer Pdf

In the post-Soviet period, discussions of "postmodernism" in Russian literature have proliferated. Based on close literary analysis of representative works of fiction by three post-Soviet Russian writers – Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin – this book investigates the usefulness and accuracy of the notion of "postmodernism" in the post-Soviet context. Classic Russian literature, renowned for its pursuit of aesthetic, moral and social values, and the modernism that succeeded it have often been seen as antipodes to postmodernist principles. The author wishes to dispute this polarity and proposes "post-Soviet neo-modernism" as an alternative concept. "Neo-modernism" embodies the notion that post-Soviet writers have redeemed the tendency of earlier literature to seek the meaning of human existence in a transcendent realm, as well as in the treasures of Russia's cultural past.

Author : Catherine Bartlett,Joachim Schlör
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004435469

Get Book

The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition by Catherine Bartlett,Joachim Schlör Pdf

Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

Author : Mirja Lecke,Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887192581

Get Book

Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa by Mirja Lecke,Efraim Sicher Pdf

Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757600

Get Book

State of Madness by Rebecca Reich Pdf

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Author : Slava Gerovitch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0262572257

Get Book

From Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch Pdf

In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science. The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a reactionary pseudoscience and a weapon of imperialist ideology. With the arrival of Khrushchev's political "thaw," however, it was seen as an innocent victim of political oppression, and it evolved into a movement for radical reform of the Stalinist system of science. In the early 1960s it was hailed as "science in the service of communism," but by the end of the decade it had turned into a shallow fashionable trend. Using extensive new archival materials, Gerovitch argues that these fluctuating attitudes reflected profound changes in scientific language and research methodology across disciplines, in power relations within the scientific community, and in the political role of scientists and engineers in Soviet society. His detailed analysis of scientific discourse shows how the Newspeak of the late Stalinist period and the Cyberspeak that challenged it eventually blended into "CyberNewspeak."

Author : Ellendea Proffer,Carl R. Proffer
Publisher : Ann Arbor, [Mich.] : Ardis
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015009376115

Get Book

The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism by Ellendea Proffer,Carl R. Proffer Pdf

Author : Renato Poggioli
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674882164

Get Book

The Theory of the Avant-garde by Renato Poggioli Pdf

Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.

Author : Boris Sorokin
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005332898

Get Book

Tolstoy in Prerevolutionary Russian Criticism by Boris Sorokin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : IND:30000093075590

Get Book

Social Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071907410X

Get Book

The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) - as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.