Andrey Bely's "Petersburg" : A Centennial Celebration / Olga M. Cooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beyer, Thomas R.

Cooke, Olga Muller, Editor.

Series:

Real twentieth century.

Real Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934. Peterburg.

Bely, Andrey.

Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934--Criticism and interpretation.

Russian prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian prose literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely's Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely's polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century's four greatest masterpieces, Petersburg is the first novel in which the city is the hero. Frequently compared to Joyce's Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Beyer, Thomas R.

Acknowledgments

On Petersburg / Nabokov, Vladimir

Introduction / Cooke, Olga M.

Bely's Petersburg and the End of the Russian Novel / Anschuetz, Carol

Andrey Bely's Astral Novel: A Theosophical Reading of Petersburg / Carlson, Maria

Synesthesia as Apocalypse in Andrey Bely's Petersburg / Castellano, Charlene

Kinship and Figure in Andrey Bely's Petersburg / Emery, Jacob

Metafiction in Andrey Bely's Novel Petersburg / Keys, Roger

Petersburg as a Historical Novel / Langen, Timothy

Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton / Lavrov, Aleksandr V.

The Bomb, the Baby, the Book / Ljunggren, Magnus

"Know Thyself": From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to the Pages of Petersburg / Ponomareva, Anna

Fragmentary "Prototypes" in Andrey Bely's Novel Petersburg / Steinberg, Ada

The Enchanted Point of Petersburg / Weiner, Adam

Reality and Appearance in Petersburg and the Viennese Secession / Wermuth-Atkinson, Judith

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-576-6

OCLC:

965543933