Introduction : Russian literature and the metamorphic theme / Peter I. Barta -- Echo and Narcissus in Russian symbolism / Peter I. Barta -- The transformation myth in Russian modernism : Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotsky / Joan Delaney Grossman -- Pythagoras and the butterfly : Nabokov's Ovidian metamorphoses / David H.J. Larmour -- Ovidian intertexts in Olesha's 'The cherry stone' : the metamorphosis of metamorphosis / Stephen Hutchings -- Sansculotte improvisers and clouds in trousers : poetic metamorphosis in Pushkin and Mayakovsky / Irene Masing-Delic -- Savage thinking : metamorphosis in the cinema of S.M. Eisenstein / Anne Nesbet
Summary
Covers the changing patterns of Russia's modern history from Peter the Great's westernization to the rise of new ̀€irrational' philosophies in the early twentieth century. Writer's and filmakers are analysed to uncover the nature of the metamorphosis within Russia's changing history and culture