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No detailed description available for "The Russian Hoffmannists".
Author : Charles E. Passage
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112317351
No detailed description available for "The Russian Hoffmannists".
Author : Dassia N. Posner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810133571
Finalist, 2017 Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award Shortlist, 2019 Prague Quadrennial Best Scenography and Design Publication Award The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of the director and the Russian cult of Hoffmann closely coincided, Posner argues, many characteristics we associate with avant-garde theater—subjective perspective, breaking through the fourth wall, activating the spectator as a co-creator—become uniquely legible in the context of this engagement. Posner examines the artistic poetics of Meyerhold's grotesque, Tairov's mime-drama, and Eisenstein's theatrical attraction through production analyses, based on extensive archival research, that challenge the notion of theater as a mirror to life, instead viewing the director as a prism through whom life is refracted. A resource for scholars and practitioners alike, this groundbreaking study provides a fresh, provocative perspective on experimental theater, intercultural borrowings, and the nature of the creative process.
Author : Геннадий Барабтарло
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571811882
Significant German communities existed in Russia for three centuries until the Bolshevik revolution gradually extirpated their presence. These 18 papers explore a number of cultural influences that the German presence had on Russian letters, art, architecture, music, and other cultural pursuits. Spe.
Author : Cornwell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004652949
From the contents: From Pantheon to Pandemonium (Richard Peace). - Karamzin's Gothic tale: The Island of Bornholm (Derek Offord). - Alessandra TOSI: At the origins of the Russian Gothic novel: Nikolai Gnedich's Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803) (Alessandra Tosi). - Does Russian Gothic verse exist? The Case of Vasilii Zhukovskii (Michael Pursglove). - The fantastic in Russian Romantic prose: Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (Claire Whitehead).
Author : J. Herdman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230371639
Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.
Author : Claire Whitehead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351196251
"Hesitation between a natural or supernatural interpretation of fictional events is the life-blood of the fantastic; but just how is this hesitation provoked? In this detailed and insightful study, Claire Whitehead uses examples from nineteenth-century French and Russian literature to provide a range of narrative and syntactic answers to this question. A close reading of eight key works by Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Odoevskii, Nikolai Gogol, Fedor Dostoevskii, Theophile Gautier, Prosper Merimee and Guy de Maupassant illustrates how ambiguity is provoked by such factors as point of view, multiple voice and narrative authority. The analysis of hesitation experienced in works depicting madness or ironic self-consciousness advocates the inclusion in the genre of previously marginalized texts. The close comparison of works from these two national traditions shows that the fundamental discursive features of the fantastic do not belong to any one language."
Author : Patrick Bridgwater
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004490213
Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.
Author : Joe Andrew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349044180
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134260709
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571819079
Russian thinker, pedagogue, musicologist, amateur scientist, and public servant Odoevsky (1804-69) was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol during his day, and is now enjoying (we presume) a revival as a writer of Romantic and Gothic fiction. Cornwell (Russian and comparative literature, U. of Bristol, England) analyzes his contribution to Russian prose fiction, particularly his approach to Romanticism, his Gothic novellas, his proto-science fiction, and his critical reception. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR