Akim Volynsky : a hidden Russian-Jewish prophet / by Helen Tolstoy ; translated and copyedited by Simon Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolstai︠a︡, Elena, author.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 11.

Studia Judaeoslavica, 1876-6153 ; volume 11

Standardized Title:

Bednyĭ ryt͡sarʹ, intellektualʹnoe stranstvie Akima Volynskogo. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926.

Volynskiĭ, A. L.

Critics--Russia--Biography.

Critics.

Dance critics.

Russia.

Dance critics--Russia--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 182 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoevsky. This book, through the study of periodicals and archive materials, offers a new view of Volynsky as a champion of Symbolist theater, supporter of Jewish playwrights, an ardent partisan of Habima theater and finally, a theoretician of Jewish theater. Throughout his life, Volynsky was a seeker of a Jewish-Christian synthesis, both religious and moral. His grand universalist view made him the first to see the true value of leading Russian writers - his contemporaries Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tolstai͡a, Elena, author. Akim Volynsky

ISBN:

9789004296053

9004296050

OCLC:

956340409