English literature and the Russian aesthetic renaissance

English literature and the Russian aesthetic renaissance / Rachel Polonsky.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Polonsky, Rachel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge studies in Russian literature.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Appreciation > Russia.
English literature > Appreciation > Russia.
English literature > Translations into Russian > History and criticism.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Appreciation > Russia.
Russian literature > English influences.
Aesthetics, Russian > 19th century.
Aesthetics, Russian > 20th century.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
Russia > Intellectual life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: museum people
  • Part I. The Barbaric Renaissance: Rites of spring
  • Balmont's Shelley and the sacred books of the east
  • Edgar Allan Poe and the magic of words
  • Part II. The Aesthetic Renaissance: The renaissance of the Renaissance
  • English Aestheticism and Blok's apocalypse
  • How important it is to be serious: Oscar Wilde's popularity
  • Kuzmin's English style
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography.

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