Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "Petersburg

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First World War encapsulate and articulate the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism as comprehensively.Bely expected his audience to participate in unraveling the work's many meanings, narrative strains, and patterns of details. In their essays, the contributors clarify these complexities, summarize the intellectual and artistic contexts that informed Petersburg's creation and reception, and review the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel. This volume will aid a broad audience of Anglophone readers in understanding and appreciating Petersburg.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:9780299319342

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Mer om författaren

Leonid Livak is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His books include In Search of Russian Modernism and The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination.

Recensioner i media

The fifteen distinguished contributors do more than elucidate a world-class novel. They provide capsule courses on a spectrum of topics that mattered deeply to Andrei Bely but are obscure to many readers today: anthroposophy, neoKantianism, 'life-creation,' racial thinking, political terrorism. A path-breaking literary portal." - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University"Succeeds in making a challenging modernist novel more accessible to nonspecialists. Students and fans of Bely's work at every level will appreciate this fine and informative critical companion to Petersburg." - Emily Johnson, author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself"A timely and useful guide for those reading and teaching Bely's brilliant modernist novel. This volume makes Bely's fascinating masterpiece more accessible to those outside Russian studies." - Choice

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionLeonid LivakOn Translating Petersburg, John ElsworthPart One. The Intellectual ContextRevolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in Petersburg, Lynn E. PatykPetersburg and Modern Occultism, Maria CarlsonPetersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism, Edith W. ClowesNeo-Kantianism in Petersburg, Timothy LangenPetersburg and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Hilary FinkPetersburg and the New Science of Psychology, Judith Wermuth-AtkinsonPetersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought, Henrietta MondryPetersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction, David M. BetheaPart Two. The Aesthetic ContextPetersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature, Steven CassedyTheatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Colleen McQuillenPetersburg and Modernist Painting with Words, Olga MatichPetersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist Novel, Taras KoznarskyPetersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction, Violeta SotirovaAids for Reading and Studying PetersburgAn Annotated Synopsis, Leonid LivakRecommended Critical Literature in EnglishIndex