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Frames of the Imagination
Melissa Frazier
其他書名
Gogol's Arabesques and the Romantic Question of Genre
出版
Peter Lang
, 2000
主題
Foreign Language Study / Russian
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / German
Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
ISBN
082044507X
9780820445076
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nj4YAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Romantic question of genre posed by Friedrich Schlegel is a question of epistemology, of how art acts as an instrument of knowledge.
Frames of the
Imagination
transforms this question of genre by shifting the center from Germany to Russia and to Russian Romanticism as expressed in one of its most enigmatic texts - Gogol's 1835
Arabesques
. This work shows
Arabesques
to be part of a lively philosophical debate as Gogol's contemporaries struggled to create from the ideas of European Romanticism something uniquely their own. In this study, literary genre becomes a means of structuring history, nationality, and even personal identity as Gogol's text puts Romantic aesthetics into odd and unexpected action.
