Spaces of Creativity (ENG)

Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts

AvKsana Blank

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

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Beskrivning

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-01
Mått:155 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618115409

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Mer om författaren

Ksana Blank is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (2010).

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"An interdisciplinary creative space is a complex thing. It is home not only to plot, language, structure, but also to whole worlds. In this provocative collection of essays, Ksana Blank shows us some unexpected corners of these worlds: the great Realist novelists shunning the railroad, Shostakovich finding poetry in Dostoevsky, the absurdist Kharms weighing in on a religious controversy, Dobuzhinsky becoming a visual chronicler of Petersburg, Tolstoy anticipating the thinking of Malevich, and Nabokov’s nymphet drowning in Pushkinian subtexts. Works we know by heart are estranged and refreshed by these resourceful angles of vision."

Innehållsförteckning

Note on Transliteration and Translation Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1. Sex, Crime, and Railroads in Dostoevsky’s Idiot and Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata Chapter 2. “Horror—Red, White, and Square”: Abstract Images in Tolstoy Chapter 3. Dobuzhinsky’s Farewell to Petersburg Chapter 4. Praising the Name: The Religious Theme in Daniil Kharms Chapter 5. Nabokov’s Nymphet and Pushkin’s Water-Nymph Chapter 6. Captain Lebyadkin’s Poetry in Shostakovich and Dostoevsky Index