The irony of the ideal : paradoxes of Russian literature / / Mikhail Epstein ; translated by A.S. Brown |
Autore | Epstein Mikhail |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) |
Disciplina | 891.709 |
Collana | Ars Rossica |
Soggetto topico |
Russian literature - History and criticism
Paradox in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61811-633-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Part I: The Titanic and the Demonic: Faust's Heirs -- 1. Faust and Peter on the Seashore: From Goethe to Pushkin -- 2. The Bronze Horseman and the Golden Fish: Pushkin's Fairy Tale-Poem -- 3. The Motherland-Witch: The Irony of Style in Nikolai Gogol -- Part II: The Great in the Little: Bashmachkin's Offspring -- 1. The Saintly Scribe: Akaky Bashmachkin and Prince Myshkin -- 2. The Figure of Repetition: The Philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and His Literary Prototypes -- 3. The Little Man in a Case: The Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome -- Part III: The Irony of Harmony -- 1. Childhood and the Myth of Harmony -- 2. The Defamiliarization of Lev Tolstoy -- 3. Soviet Heroics and the Oedipus Complex -- Part IV: Being as Nothingness -- 1. A Farewell to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov -- 2. The Secret of Being and Nonbeing in Vladimir Nabokov -- 3. Andrei Platonov between Nonbeing and Resurrection -- 4. Dream and Battle: Oblomov, Korchagin, Kopenkin -- Part V: The Silence of the Word -- 1. Language and Silence as Forms of Being -- 2. The Ideology and Magic of the Word: Anton Chekhov, Daniil Kharms, and Vladimir Sorokin -- 3. The Russian Code of Silence: Politics and Mysticism -- Part VI: Madness and Reason -- 1. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method: Poets and Philosophers -- 2. Poetry as Ecstasy and as Interpretation: Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandel'shtam -- 3. The Lyric of Idiotic Reason: Folkloric Philosophy in Dmitrii Prigov -- The Cyclical Development of Russian Literature -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466519803321 |
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Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 | ||
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The irony of the ideal : paradoxes of Russian literature / / Mikhail Epstein ; translated by A.S. Brown |
Autore | Epstein Mikhail |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) |
Disciplina | 891.709 |
Collana | Ars Rossica |
Soggetto topico |
Russian literature - History and criticism
Paradox in literature |
ISBN | 1-61811-633-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Part I: The Titanic and the Demonic: Faust's Heirs -- 1. Faust and Peter on the Seashore: From Goethe to Pushkin -- 2. The Bronze Horseman and the Golden Fish: Pushkin's Fairy Tale-Poem -- 3. The Motherland-Witch: The Irony of Style in Nikolai Gogol -- Part II: The Great in the Little: Bashmachkin's Offspring -- 1. The Saintly Scribe: Akaky Bashmachkin and Prince Myshkin -- 2. The Figure of Repetition: The Philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and His Literary Prototypes -- 3. The Little Man in a Case: The Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome -- Part III: The Irony of Harmony -- 1. Childhood and the Myth of Harmony -- 2. The Defamiliarization of Lev Tolstoy -- 3. Soviet Heroics and the Oedipus Complex -- Part IV: Being as Nothingness -- 1. A Farewell to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov -- 2. The Secret of Being and Nonbeing in Vladimir Nabokov -- 3. Andrei Platonov between Nonbeing and Resurrection -- 4. Dream and Battle: Oblomov, Korchagin, Kopenkin -- Part V: The Silence of the Word -- 1. Language and Silence as Forms of Being -- 2. The Ideology and Magic of the Word: Anton Chekhov, Daniil Kharms, and Vladimir Sorokin -- 3. The Russian Code of Silence: Politics and Mysticism -- Part VI: Madness and Reason -- 1. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method: Poets and Philosophers -- 2. Poetry as Ecstasy and as Interpretation: Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandel'shtam -- 3. The Lyric of Idiotic Reason: Folkloric Philosophy in Dmitrii Prigov -- The Cyclical Development of Russian Literature -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796411103321 |
Epstein Mikhail
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Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The irony of the ideal : paradoxes of Russian literature / / Mikhail Epstein ; translated by A.S. Brown |
Autore | Epstein Mikhail |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) |
Disciplina | 891.709 |
Collana | Ars Rossica |
Soggetto topico |
Russian literature - History and criticism
Paradox in literature |
ISBN | 1-61811-633-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Part I: The Titanic and the Demonic: Faust's Heirs -- 1. Faust and Peter on the Seashore: From Goethe to Pushkin -- 2. The Bronze Horseman and the Golden Fish: Pushkin's Fairy Tale-Poem -- 3. The Motherland-Witch: The Irony of Style in Nikolai Gogol -- Part II: The Great in the Little: Bashmachkin's Offspring -- 1. The Saintly Scribe: Akaky Bashmachkin and Prince Myshkin -- 2. The Figure of Repetition: The Philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and His Literary Prototypes -- 3. The Little Man in a Case: The Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome -- Part III: The Irony of Harmony -- 1. Childhood and the Myth of Harmony -- 2. The Defamiliarization of Lev Tolstoy -- 3. Soviet Heroics and the Oedipus Complex -- Part IV: Being as Nothingness -- 1. A Farewell to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov -- 2. The Secret of Being and Nonbeing in Vladimir Nabokov -- 3. Andrei Platonov between Nonbeing and Resurrection -- 4. Dream and Battle: Oblomov, Korchagin, Kopenkin -- Part V: The Silence of the Word -- 1. Language and Silence as Forms of Being -- 2. The Ideology and Magic of the Word: Anton Chekhov, Daniil Kharms, and Vladimir Sorokin -- 3. The Russian Code of Silence: Politics and Mysticism -- Part VI: Madness and Reason -- 1. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method: Poets and Philosophers -- 2. Poetry as Ecstasy and as Interpretation: Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandel'shtam -- 3. The Lyric of Idiotic Reason: Folkloric Philosophy in Dmitrii Prigov -- The Cyclical Development of Russian Literature -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815556403321 |
Epstein Mikhail
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Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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