LEADER 04509nam 2200721 450 001 9910458629103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9795-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442697959 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054376 035 $a(OCoLC)707712754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442454 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484638 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284743 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484638 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594740 035 $a(PQKB)10732553 035 $a(CEL)433786 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226141 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272668 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672961 035 $a(DE-B1597)465208 035 $a(OCoLC)1013941002 035 $a(OCoLC)944176489 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442697959 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672961 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258611 035 $a(OCoLC)958572641 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054376 100 $a20160923h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGhostly paradoxes $emodern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism /$fIlya Vinitsky 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4875-2365-3 311 $a0-8020-9935-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction: A New World - Modern Spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s -- $tPART ONE TABLE TALKS: SEANCE AS CULTURAL METAPHOR -- $t1. Seance as Test, or, Russian Writers at a Spiritualist Rendezvous -- $t2. Russian Glubbdubdrib: The Shade of False Dimitry and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism -- $t3. Dead Poets' Society: Pushkin's Shade in Russian Cultural Mythology of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- $tPART TWO REALIST EXORCISM: SPIRITUALISM AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION OF THE 1860s TO 1880s -- $t4. Flickering Hands: The Spiritualist Realism of Nikolai Vagner -- $t5. The Middle World: The Realist Spiritualism of Saltykov-Shchedrin -- $t6. The Underworld: Dostoevsky's Ontological Realism -- $t7. The (Dis)infection: Art and Hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy -- $tEpilogue: The Spirit of Literature - Reflections on Leskov's Artistic Spiritualism -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThe culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit communication, and materialization of the 'spirits.' Ghostly Paradoxes examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two disparate movements influenced each other.Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together. 606 $aRussian literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and spiritualism$zRussia 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aSpiritualism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and spiritualism 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory 676 $a891.709003 700 $aVinit?skii?$b I. I?U$g(Il?i?a I?Ur?evich),$f1969-$0989149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458629103321 996 $aGhostly paradoxes$92262187 997 $aUNINA