Metamorphoses in Russian modernism [electronic resource] / edited by Peter I. Barta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barta, Peter I.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Russian literature.

Metamorphosis in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Russia.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p. )

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction : Russian literature and the metamorphic theme / Peter I. Barta

Echo and Narcissus in Russian symbolism / Peter I. Barta

The transformation myth in Russian modernism : Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotsky / Joan Delaney Grossman

Pythagoras and the butterfly : Nabokov's Ovidian metamorphoses / David H.J. Larmour

Ovidian intertexts in Olesha's 'The cherry stone' : the metamorphosis of metamorphosis / Stephen Hutchings

Sansculotte improvisers and clouds in trousers : poetic metamorphosis in Pushkin and Mayakovsky / Irene Masing-Delic

Savage thinking : metamorphosis in the cinema of S.M. Eisenstein / Anne Nesbet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph