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Presenting a multifaceted portrait of modernist culture in Russia, an array of distinguished scholars shows how artists and writers in the early twentieth century engaged with politics, science, and religion. At a time when many Russian social institutions looked to the past, modernist arts powerfully amplified a gamut of new ideas about individual and collective transformation.
Expanding upon prior studies that focus more specifically on literary manifestations of the movement, Reframing Russian Modernism features original research that ranges broadly, from political aesthetics to Darwinism to yoga. These unique complementary perspectives counter reductionism of any kind, integrating the study of Russian modernism into the larger body of humanistic scholarship devoted to modernity.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction. Russian Modernist Studies: A Centennial Perspective
Irina Shevelenko
Part I. Concepts in Flux
1 The Terminological Labyrinth of Russian Modernist Studies
Leonid Livak
Part II. Aesthetics and Pragmatics
2 Shifting Time-Frames and Metaphorical Spaces: Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian Modernism, and the Classical Past
Judith Kalb
3 Pan-Slavism Redux, or Speaking Russian in Modernist Tongues
Irina Shevelenko
4 Arranging the Absolute: On One of Russian Modernism's Legacies in the Stalin Era
Thomas Seifrid
Part III. Science and Medicine
5 Darwin and Russian Modernism
David Bethea
6 The Discourse of Sexual Psychopathy in Russian Modernism
Evgenii Bershtein
7 Civilization, Irony, Neurasthenia: Anti-Semitic Discourse in the Writings of Aleksandr Blok
Arkadii Blumbaum
Part IV. Religion and Spirituality
8 Religion, Secularism, and Modernist Culture in Russia: The Case of Aleksandr Dobroliubov
Thomas H. Tabatowski
9 Russian Modernity Meets Yoga
J. Alexander Ogden
Contributors
Index
