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Title Metamorphoses in Russian modernism / edited by Peter I. Barta
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Russia
Metamorphosis in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Russian literature
Literatur
Moderne
Metamorphose
Aufsatzsammlung
Russisch.
Literaire thema's.
Gedaanteverwisseling.
Russia
Russisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Barta, Peter I