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Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic

Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic

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Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0810132389
ISBN13: 9780810132382
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Mar 31 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Unorthodox Beauty shows how Russian poets of the early twentieth century consciously adapted Russian Orthodox culture in order to create a distinctly religious modernism. Martha M. F. Kelly contends that, beyond mere themes, these writers developed an entire poetics that drew on liturgical tradition. Specifically, Russian Orthodoxy held out the possibility of unifying spirit and matter, as well as a host of other dichotomies--subject and object, empirical and irrational, noumena and phenomena. The artist could produce a work of transformative and regenerative power. Using a range of crossdisciplinary tools, Kelly reads key works by Blok, Kuzmin, Akhmatova, and Pasternak in ways that illustrate how profoundly religious traditions and ideas shaped Russian modernist literature.

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