Spaces of Creativity

Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Ksana Blank

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In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-01
Mått155 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt438 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Antal sidor160
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781618115409

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PrefaceChapter 1. Sex, Crime, and Railroads in Dostoevsky’s Idiot and Tolstoy’s Kreutzer SonataChapter 2. “Horror—Red, White, and Square”: Abstract Images in TolstoyChapter 3. Dobuzhinsky’s Farewell to PetersburgChapter 4. Praising the Name: The Religious Theme in Daniil KharmsChapter 5. Nabokov’s Nymphet and Pushkin’s Water-NymphChapter 6. Captain Lebyadkin’s Poetry in Shostakovich and Dostoevsky

"An interdisciplinary creative space is a complex thing. It is home not only to plot, language, structure, but also to whole worlds. In this provocative collection of essays, Ksana Blank shows us some unexpected corners of these worlds: the great Realist novelists shunning the railroad, Shostakovich finding poetry in Dostoevsky, the absurdist Kharms weighing in on a religious controversy, Dobuzhinsky becoming a visual chronicler of Petersburg, Tolstoy anticipating the thinking of Malevich, and Nabokov’s nymphet drowning in Pushkinian subtexts. Works we know by heart are estranged and refreshed by these resourceful angles of vision."