Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
ISBN: 978-0-299-31930-4
Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Leonid Livak
- On Translating Petersburg
- John Elsworth
- Part One. The Intellectual Context
- Revolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in Petersburg
- Lynn E. Patyk
- Petersburg and Modern Occultism
- Maria Carlson
- Petersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism
- Edith W. Clowes
- Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg
- Timothy Langen
- Petersburg and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson
- Hilary Fink
- Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology
- Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
- Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought
- Henrietta Mondry
- Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction
- David M. Bethea
- Part Two. The Aesthetic Context
- Petersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature
- Steven Cassedy
- Theatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg
- Colleen McQuillen
- Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words
- Olga Matich
- Petersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist Novel
- Taras Koznarsky
- Petersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction
- Violeta Sotirova
- Aids for Reading and Studying Petersburg
- An Annotated Synopsis
- Leonid Livak
- Recommended Critical Literature in English
- Index
