Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980 : Music for a Deaf Age (Legenda)

von Zitzewitz, Josephine

Routledge（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367598426
• DDC分類 891.714409

Full Description

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called '37'. The group and its journal offered a platform to poets who subsequently entered the canon of Russian verse, such as Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010). Josephine von Zitzewitz's new study focuses on the Seminar's identification of culture and spirituality, which allowed Leningrad's unofficial culture to tap into the spirit of Russian modernism, as can be seen in '37'. This book is thus a study of a major current in twentieth-century Russian poetry, and an enquiry into the intersection between literary and spiritual concerns. But it also presents case studies of five poets from a special generation: not only Krivulin and Shvarts, but also Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) and Aleksandr Mironov (1948-2010).

Contents

1 The Religious-Philosophical Seminar ( - ), Leningrad, 1974-1980 2 Viktor Krivulin: The Quest for a New Sacred Language 3 Aleksandr Mironov: Christianity of the Absurd 4 Elena Shvarts: Incarnation Inverted 5 Oleg Okhapkin: Poetry as Liturgy 6 Sergei Stratanovskii: Christianity and Historiography