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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793962803321

Titolo

Andrey Bely : Spirit of Symbolism / / John E. Malmstad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1987

ISBN

1-5017-4527-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 pages)

Collana

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Disciplina

891.78/309

Soggetti

Biography & Autobiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Bely's Symphonies / Keys, Roger -- 2. The Silver Dove / Carlson, Maria -- 3. Petersburg / Maguire, Robert A. / Malmstad, John E. -- 4. Kotik Letaev, The Baptized Chinaman, and Notes of an Eccentric / Alexandrov, Vladimir E. -- 5. Moscow and Masks / Elsworth, John -- 6. Bely's Memoirs / Fleishman, Lazar -- 7. Bely's Poetry and Verse Theory / Smith, G. S. -- 8. Bely's Theory of Symbolism as a Formal !conics of Meaning / Cassedy, Steven -- 9. Bely the Thinker / Cassedy, Steven -- 10. Seeing and Hearing Andrey Bely: Sketches from Afar / Maksimov, Dmitry -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

No figure in turn-of-the-century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (1880-1934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of the major writers of this century, Bely subjected the received standards of truth and value in literature to a penetrating and radical critique. After a long period of suppression under the Stalinist regime, Bely has become the object of growing critical attention in both East and West. Originating in a symposium held in 1984 under the auspices of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on the fiftieth anniversary of Bely's death, this volume includes ten essays by established scholars of modern Russian literature, including leading Western specialists on Bely. The essays survey Bely's major works in all



genres, summarize present research on Bely, reassess critical approaches, and offer fresh interpretations. Analytic summaries of primary works make the essays fully accessible to non-Slavist readers.