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Russian modernism : the transfiguration of the everyday / Stephen C. Hutchings.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Russian literaturePublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511005504
  • 9780511005503
  • 9780511585555
  • 0511585551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian modernism.DDC classification:
  • 891.7309/112 21
LOC classification:
  • PG3096.M35 H88 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 18.53
Online resources:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-288) and index.

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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.

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.

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