Russian Modernism
The Transfiguration of the Everyday
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- Author: Stephen C. Hutchings, University of Surrey
- Date Published: March 2006
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- isbn: 9780521024495
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This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life, or byt, and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two aesthetic systems, one predominant in Western Catholic and Protestant cultures, the other reflected in Orthodox iconic traditions. He offers provocative, yet careful, readings of key narrative texts from the period.
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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"This first study devoted to the subject is welcome for its rich, informed theoretical discussion....A book for graduate students and researchers." Choice
See more reviews"Russian Modernism will be useful to anyone with an interest in either Silver Age prose fiction or the interaction between Russian religious thought and Russian culture." Steven Cassedy, Slavic Review
"Stephen Hutching's densely written book rewards the diligent reader with a sophisticated, well-illustrated, and convincing analysis of the function of byt (routine life) in twentieth-century Russian literature. Hutching's work...provides fresh, insightful close readings of salient Silver Age texts...Even more important, however, Hutchings convincingly traces how the struggle in Russian literature between are and "real life" achieves its ultimate transposition through Silver Age literature....it merits careful attention by any serious scholar of twentieth-century Russian literature and cultural studies." The Russian Review, vol.59
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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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