Janecek The Look of Russian Literature

Avant-Garde Visual Experiments, 1900-1930
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5285-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Gerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books.

Originally published in 1984.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Janecek, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Illustrations and Portraits, pg. xi
Transliteration System. Abbreviations, pg. xvi
Preface, pg. xvii
Acknowledgments, pg. xix
1. Introduction. A Historical Perspective, pg. 1
2. Andrey Bely, pg. 25
3. Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Book, pg. 69
4. Kamensky and the Ferroconcrete Poem, pg. 123
5. Typography Zdanevich and Others, pg. 149
6. Mayakovsky and the Stepladder Line, pg. 207
Appendixes, pg. 249
References, pg. 291
Index, pg. 309