Shapes of Apocalypse : arts and philosophy in Slavic thought / edited by Andrea Oppo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oppo, Andrea, editor.

Series:

Myths and taboos in Russian culture.

Myths and taboos in Russian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in art.

Apocalypse in literature.

Bible. Revelation.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages).

Other Title:

Shapes of Apocalypse

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Summary:

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of "apocalypse," within some key examples in the "Slavic world" during the nineteenth and twentieth century. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth century philosophy, not omitting theatre, cinema or music, there is a specific examination of the concepts of "end of history" and "end of present time" as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea means to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which; however divergent and variegated it may be in general, converges on a specific myth in a surprising manner.

Contents:

Part One. Philosophy

The tilted pillar : Rozanov and the Apocalypse / Giancarlo Baffo

Salvation without redemption : phenomenology of (pre)-history in Patočka's late work / Riccardo Paparusso

Part Two. Literature

The sacrament of end : the theme of Apocalypse in three works by Gogol / Vladimir Glyantz

Apocalyptic imagery in Dostoevskij's The idiot and The devils / William J. Leatherbarrow

Black blood, white roses : Apocalypse and redemption in Blok's later poetry / Irene Masing-Delić

Apocalypse and Golgotha in Miroslav Krleža's Olden days : memoirs and diaries 1914-1921/1922 / Suzana Marjanić

Part Three. Music and visual arts

The apocalyptic dispersion of light into poetry and music : Aleksandr Skrjabin in the Russian religious imagination / Polina Dimova

From the Peredvižniki's realism to Lenin's mausoleum : the two poles of an apocalyptic-palingenetic path / Chiara Cantelli

Theatre at the limit : Jerzy Grotowski's Apocalypsis cum figuris / Andrea Oppo

On Apocalypse, witches and desiccated trees : a reading of Andrej Tarkovskij's The sacrifice / Alessio Scarlato.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index.