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Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

The Philosophers and the Freudians

By: Anna Lisa Crone

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Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

The Philosophers and the Freudians

By: Anna Lisa Crone

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal" explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist about the use of psychoanalysis in Russia. It shows how the sexual theories of creativity /sublimation of Solovyov and Rozanov led to the concepts of Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev.

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BRILL

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9004180052

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9789004180055

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

Poems of Memory

By: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova,Анна Андреевна Ахматова

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The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

Poems of Memory

By: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova,Анна Андреевна Ахматова

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova’s poems and how and why they were created.

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364

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Yale University Press

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0300103778

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9780300103779

The Ghost of Shakespeare

Collected Essays

By: Anna Frajlich

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The Ghost of Shakespeare

Collected Essays

By: Anna Frajlich

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from Frajlich’s essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska, but informs her approach as a comparativist more generally as she considers the work of major Polish writers of the twentieth century, including Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz, and Bruno Schulz. Frajlich’s study of the Roman theme in Russian Symbolism owes its origins to her stay in the Eternal City, the second stop on her exile from Poland in 1969. The book concludes with autobiographical essays that describe her parents’ dramatic flight from Poland at the outbreak of the war, her own exile from Poland in 1969, settling in New York City, and building her career as a scholar and leading poet of her generation.

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464

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644694735

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9781644694732

The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age

By: Anna Frajlich

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The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age

By: Anna Frajlich

For poets throughout the world Rome was the world. This is particularly true for Russian poets, owing to the anagrammatical relation of the words Rome and mir (Rome and world). The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. The revitalization of classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Russia and new approaches to antiquity prompted many of the Russian Symbolists to seek their inspiration in ancient Rome. Vladimir Solovyov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maksimilian Voloshin, Vasily Komarovsky, and Mikhail Kuzmin all made significant contributions to what is often referred to as the “Roman text.” The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age analyzes the forms involved in creating the Roman image and explores its functionality within the given poetic system. In addition to the formal analysis, the background and the stimulus leading up to the composition of a particular poem are explored, as well as allusions to legends, myths and Rome’s geography and architecture. Moreover, this study considers the function of the Roman text in Russian Symbolist poetics and the works of the individual poets. Finally, the relation between the Roman and Petersburg texts of Russian literature is explored, since many of the Russian Symbolist poets found in Rome a perfect metaphor for their studies of the city and “urban” poetry.

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220

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BRILL

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9401204799

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9789401204798

My Half Century

Selected Prose

By: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

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My Half Century

Selected Prose

By: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English." "The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously." --Book Jacket.

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500

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Northwestern University Press

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0810114852

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9780810114852

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

The Philosophers and the Freudians

By: Anna Lisa Crone

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The Philosophers and the Freudians

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Book's by Anna Lisa Crone

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

The Ghost of Shakespeare

The Ghost of Shakespeare

The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age

The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age

My Half Century

My Half Century

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

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