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Russian modernism : the transfiguration of the everyday / Stephen C. Hutchings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutchings, Stephen C., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Russian literature.
- Cambridge studies in Russian literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Russian fiction.
- Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Manners and customs in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Russia.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as neutral and normative, the other encapsulated in the Orthodox emphasis on iconic embodiment. Hutchings identifies early 'Decadent' formulations of byt as a milestone after which writers from Chekhov to Rozanov sought to affirm the iconic potential hidden in Russian realism's critique of representationalism. Provocative, yet careful, textual analyses reveal a consistent urge to redefine art's function as one not of representing life, but of transfiguring the everyday.
- Contents:
- Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life
- The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature
- Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday
- Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess
- The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and the christened chinaman
- Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy
- At the "I" of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's whirlwind Russia.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-58555-1
- 0-511-00550-4
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