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In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Price: $109.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Publication Date:
15 November 2016
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781618115409
Format: Hardcover
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"An interdisciplinary creative space is a complex thing. It is home not only to plot, language, structure, but also to whole worlds. In this provocative collection of essays, Ksana Blank shows us some unexpected corners of these worlds: the great Realist novelists shunning the railroad, Shostakovich finding poetry in Dostoevsky, the absurdist Kharms weighing in on a religious controversy, Dobuzhinsky becoming a visual chronicler of Petersburg, Tolstoy anticipating the thinking of Malevich, and Nabokov’s nymphet drowning in Pushkinian subtexts. Works we know by heart are estranged and refreshed by these resourceful angles of vision."
— Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
— Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Ksana Blank is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (2010).
Note on Transliteration and Translation Illustrations Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Sex, Crime, and Railroads in Dostoevsky’s Idiot and Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata
Chapter 2. “Horror—Red, White, and Square”: Abstract Images in Tolstoy
Chapter 3. Dobuzhinsky’s Farewell to Petersburg
Chapter 4. Praising the Name: The Religious Theme in Daniil Kharms
Chapter 5. Nabokov’s Nymphet and Pushkin’s Water-Nymph
Chapter 6. Captain Lebyadkin’s Poetry in Shostakovich and Dostoevsky
Index