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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957415503321

Autore

Rylkova Galina

Titolo

Archaeology of Anxiety : The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014

ISBN

9780822973355

0822973359

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Pitt Russian East European

Disciplina

891

Soggetti

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Russian literature - 20th century - Political aspects

Russian literature - 20th century - Social aspects

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Anxiety and the Russian Silver Age -- 2. Literature and Revolution: The Case of Aleksandr Blok -- 3. The Russian Silver Age: Its Makers and Undertakers -- 4. No â€oeRoom of Her Ownâ€?: Anna Akhmatovaâ€?s Tenure in Soviet Culture -- 5. The Winged Eavesdropper: Kuzmin and Nabokov -- 6. The Silver Age in Translation: Boris Pasternakâ€?s Doctor Zhivago -- 7. Braving the Thaw: Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s -- 8. The Apocalypse Revisited: Viktor Erofeevâ€?s Russian Beauty -- 9. Coda: The Silver Age Up Close

Appendix: Original Russian TextsNotes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass media. The Archaeology of Anxiety is the first extended analysis of why the Silver Age occupies such prominence in Russian collective consciousness. Galina Rylkova examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct-the byproduct of an anxiety that permeated society in reaction to the social, political, and cultura