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Metamorphosis in Russian Modernism (Hardcover)
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Metamorphosis in Russian Modernism (Hardcover)
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Modern Russia has been shaped by Peter the Great's sudden attempt
to transform it into a European country. Since shapeshifting and
identity are so closely linked in Russian history, the same theme
of metamorphosis is prevalent in Russian literature and is examined
here as a Russian theme, structuring principle and source of
artistic identity. Barta examines the magical transformations
depicted in the ancient classics and in the oral epic heritage
resonate in Russian literature and film at the fin de siecle and
the early decades of the 20th century - a period of dynamic change
in Russian culture. Two hundred years after Peter's forceful
westernization and facing its second crucial transformation in
1917, Russia witnessed the decay of classic realism and positivism
and the rise of irrational philosophies, psychoanalysis, artistic
experimentation, Marxism, as well as the birth of the new genre of
film. Metamorphosis is examined in the works of prominent
representatives of the divided Russian intelligentsia: the
Symbolists; the most famous emigre writer, Nabokov; Olesha, the
"fellow traveller" attempting to find his place in the Soviet
state; the enthuiastic poet of the Bolshevik movement, Mayakovski;
and finally, the great Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein.
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