Exotic Moscow under Western eyes /
Masing-Delic, I.
Exotic Moscow under Western eyes / Irene Masing-Delic. - 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages). - Cultural revolutions : Russia in the twentieth century . - Cultural revolutions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
The music of ecstasy and the picture of harmony : Nietzsche's Dionysus and Apollo in Turgenev's "Song of triumphant love" -- A change of gender roles : the Pygmalion motif in Jane Austen's Emma and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov -- Clairvoyant mothers and erring sons : Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment and Conrad's Under Western eyes -- Rescuing culture from civilization : Gorky, Gogol, Sologub and the Mediterranean model -- The "castrator" Rogozhin and the "castrate" Smerdiakov : incarnations of Dostoevsky's 'devil-bearing' people? -- Who are the Tatars in Alexander Bolk's The homeland? : the East in the literary-ideological discourse of the Russian symbolists -- Gothic historiosophy : the Pani Katerina story in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Larissa-Lolita, or catharsis and dolor, in the artist-novels Doktor Zhivago and Lolita -- Survival of the superfluous: doubling and mimicry in Nabokov's Podvig-Glory -- Moscow in the tropics : exotica in Valerii Briusov's early urban poetry.
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This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is "barbaric." Another stance advocates the synthesis of "sense and sensibility" and the vision of "Apollo" and "Dionysus" creating a "civilized culture" together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
9781618111364 1618111361 9781618118516 161811851X 9781934843406 1934843407
22573/ctt21h4hv5 JSTOR 104928 Knowledge Unlatched
Geschichte 1800-2000
Russian literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Russian & Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Russian literature.
Literatur
Literary studies: general
Russia--In literature.
Russia (Federation)
Russisch.
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PG2975 / .M37 2009eb
891.709/35847
Exotic Moscow under Western eyes / Irene Masing-Delic. - 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages). - Cultural revolutions : Russia in the twentieth century . - Cultural revolutions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
The music of ecstasy and the picture of harmony : Nietzsche's Dionysus and Apollo in Turgenev's "Song of triumphant love" -- A change of gender roles : the Pygmalion motif in Jane Austen's Emma and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov -- Clairvoyant mothers and erring sons : Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment and Conrad's Under Western eyes -- Rescuing culture from civilization : Gorky, Gogol, Sologub and the Mediterranean model -- The "castrator" Rogozhin and the "castrate" Smerdiakov : incarnations of Dostoevsky's 'devil-bearing' people? -- Who are the Tatars in Alexander Bolk's The homeland? : the East in the literary-ideological discourse of the Russian symbolists -- Gothic historiosophy : the Pani Katerina story in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Larissa-Lolita, or catharsis and dolor, in the artist-novels Doktor Zhivago and Lolita -- Survival of the superfluous: doubling and mimicry in Nabokov's Podvig-Glory -- Moscow in the tropics : exotica in Valerii Briusov's early urban poetry.
Use copy
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is "barbaric." Another stance advocates the synthesis of "sense and sensibility" and the vision of "Apollo" and "Dionysus" creating a "civilized culture" together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9781618111364 1618111361 9781618118516 161811851X 9781934843406 1934843407
22573/ctt21h4hv5 JSTOR 104928 Knowledge Unlatched
Geschichte 1800-2000
Russian literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Russian & Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Russian literature.
Literatur
Literary studies: general
Russia--In literature.
Russia (Federation)
Russisch.
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PG2975 / .M37 2009eb
891.709/35847