Russian Modernism
The Transfiguration of the Everyday
Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Stephen C. Hutchings, University of Surrey
- Date Published: March 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521024495
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This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as neutral and normative, the other encapsulated in the Orthodox emphasis on iconic embodiment. Hutchings identifies early 'Decadent' formulations of byt as a milestone after which writers from Chekhov to Rozanov sought to affirm the iconic potential hidden in Russian realism's critique of representationalism. Provocative, yet careful, textual analyses reveal a consistent urge to redefine art's function as one not of representing life, but of transfiguring the everyday.
Read more- First book to treat Russian Silver Age narrative as a unity and to place it in its literary cultural context
- First book thoroughly to trace the philosophical and cultural origins of the unique Russian concept of the everyday, or byt
- Makes innovative use of literary theory and theology to offer new readings of key texts
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- Date Published: March 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521024495
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.414kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I:
1. Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life
2. The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature
Part II:
3. Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday
4. Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess
Part III:
5. The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and The Christened Chinaman
6. Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy
7. At the 'I' of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's Whirlwind Russia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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