Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic

Description

Product ID:	9780810132382
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	US
Series:	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Title:	Unorthodox Beauty
Subtitle:	Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic
Authors:	Author: Martha M. F. Kelly
Page Count:	352
Subjects:	Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orthodox & Oriental Churches, Russian
Description:	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.
Imprint Name:	Northwestern University Press
Publisher Name:	Northwestern University Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2016-03-31

Weight	418 g
Dimensions	376 × 154 × 15 mm