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Optical Play : Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture / Julia Bekman Chadaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chadaga, Julia Bekman, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glass construction--Social aspects--Russia.
- Glass construction.
- Vision--Social aspects--Russia.
- Vision.
- Glass--Social aspects--Russia.
- Glass.
- Vision in literature.
- Glass in literature.
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Longlist finalist, 2015 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History Julia Bekman Chadaga's ambitious study posits that glass--in its uses as a material and as captured in culture--is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century onward.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Looking through glass : the transformation of vision
- The language of glass : making rhetorical objects
- The display of power : spectacular glass in Imperial Russia
- Glass architecture : glimpses of utopia
- The glass house as dream and nightmare
- Light in captivity : the glass object as ideological spectacle
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6788-3
- OCLC:
- 893600245
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