Unorthodox Beauty - Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic (Paperback)

Unorthodox Beauty shows how Russian poets of the early twentieth century consciously adapted Russian Orthodox culture in order to create a distinctly religious modernism. Martha M. F. Kelly contends that, beyond mere themes, these writersdeveloped an entire poetics that drew on liturgical tradition. Specifically, Russian Orthodoxy held out the possibility of unifying spirit and matter, as well as a host of other dichotomies-subject and object, empirical and irrational, noumena and phenomena. The artist could produce a work of transformative and regenerative power. Using a range of crossdisciplinary tools, Kelly reads key works by Blok, Kuzmin, Akhmatova, and Pasternak in ways that illustrate how profoundly religious traditions and ideas shaped Russian modernist literature.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Release date:	March 2016
Authors:	Martha M F Kelly
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-3238-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Orthodox Churches Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Orthodox Churches Books > Christianity > Orthodox Churches
LSN:	0-8101-3238-9
Barcode:	9780810132382

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