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Between Greece and the Orient
Martina Morabito
其他書名
Mapping the Russian Self
出版Quodlibet, 2022
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN88229081559788822908155
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XJTwzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Imitating Dionysius, a primary figure within the Symbolist culture, this book seeks hybrid and dynamic processes, co-presences, and ambivalence, tracking down the many works in which the strict categories of 'East' and 'West,' 'Classicism' and 'Modernity,' 'Russia' and 'Europe' are reversed and reformulated into new paradigms. The Russian Symbolist period reformulated its own cultural identity from a spatial point of view, shaping an imaginary place formed by the hybridisation between Ancient Greece and the Orient: this is the main idea of this essay, that regards geographical space as a tool to read literature and cultural history in a new way. The book maps the Russian Zeitgeist - roughly from 1890 to 1917 - according to the descriptions of the 'Russian Self' made by Andrej Belyj, Valerij Bryusov, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel', Lev Bakst, and Dmitrij Mendeleev, just to name a few . Through an extensive use of montage and an intentionally loose application of chronological and typological definitions, the analysis reveals how Russian thought, in the syncretic Symbolist period, lays the foundations for a new Self, interpreted not as a sum of incoherent elements."--Publisher's website.