Russian irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky : seven essays in literature and thought

Russian irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky : seven essays in literature and thought / Olga Tabachnikova.

Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Ru...

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Main Author: Tabachnikova, Olga, 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Subjects:
Russian literature > Philosophy.
Irrationalism (Philosophy) in literature.
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Irrationalism (Philosophy) in literature
Russian literature
Russian literature > Philosophy
Russisch
Literatur
Russland > Motiv
Irrationalismus > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The language of irrationalism?
  • Russia and the West. The power of illusion
  • On Russian dreamers
  • Russian eros: love in the context of moral philosophy
  • Towards the question of the "man of nature" and "man of culture" in Russian literature
  • Cases of subversion. Chekhov and Brodsky: under the veneer of rationalism? (or: on the concepts of hot and cold blood as philosophical categories)
  • Rebellious tradition: Russian literary laughter, between poetry and pain.

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