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Author Hutchings, Stephen C

Title Russian modernism : the transfiguration of the everyday / Stephen C. Hutchings
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Russian literature
Cambridge studies in Russian literature.
Contents Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life -- The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature -- Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday -- Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess -- The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and the christened chinaman -- Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy -- At the "I" of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's whirlwind Russia
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-288) and index
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Subject Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Manners and customs in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Russia
Modernism (Literature) -- Soviet Union
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Manners and customs in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Russian fiction
Russisch.
Proza.
Dagelijks leven.
Prose russe -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Prose russe -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Moeurs et coutumes -- Dans la littérature.
Modernisme (théologie chrétienne) -- Russie.
Modernisme (théologie chrétienne) -- URSS.
Littérature russe -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (littérature) -- Russie.
Modernisme (littérature) -- URSS.
Littérature russe -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511005504
9780511005503
9780511585555
0511585551