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THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM LITERARY STUDIES ON THE THEORY OF LITERATURE OF 1910S — 1920S (ANDREY BELY)
No full textThis article deals with the way the heritage of literary studies of Russian Symbolists (V. Ya. Bryusov, Andrey Bely, V. Ivanov, etc) influenced the establishment of poetics in Russia. Their studies provided an impetus for the Russian formal school (B. M. Eykhenbaum, Yu. N. Tynyanov, etc.) and development of the approaches to text studies in the works of V. M. Zhirmunskiy and M. M. Bakhtin. As literary studies of Symbolists are synthetic by nature, one of its parts (attention to form) refracted in formalism, for example, in the works by Zhirmunsky, and the other part (semantics) is found in works by M.M. Bakhtin. A significant role in this process was played by Andrey Bely. He was the one to provide an impetus for supporters of the morphological school to aim for precision, he pioneered the idea of fusing the sciences and the humanities. Bely was the first to put forward an idea of separating form and content, central for future Russian formalism, and other concepts that made the basis of the formal school. It sheds a new light on the development of Russian literary studies, primarily on the establishment of the formal school that has its roots mainly in theoretical contemplation. Russian Symbolists, especially Andrey Bely with his sharp interest to the form and poetics of works, introduction of new approaches to a word, new methods in literary studies and his input in poetry studies, reawakened the Russian formalists. They are their precursors
Andrey Bely: A Critical Review
Get PDFAndrey Bely, novelist, essayist, theoretician, critic, and poet, was a central figure in the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s, the most important literary movement in Russia in this century. Bely articulated a Symbolist aesthetic and originated a new approach to the study of Russian metrics and versification, giving rise to a new scholarly discipline that still thrives in the West.
Although regarded by some critics, including Vladimir Nabokov, as the author of the greatest Russian novel of this century, Bely has been nearly forgotten in his native country for ideological reasons. In the West he remains little known and generally under-valued. But with recent English translations of Kotik Letaev and his masterpiece, Petersburg, interest in Bely is increasing. Janecek\u27s book brings together some of the best modern scholarship on Bely and the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s.
Gerald Janecek is associate professor of Russian at the University of Kentucky.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_slavic_languages_and_societies/1001/thumbnail.jp
The dreams of Noosphere: New books on Andrey Bely
No full textThe article reviews three new books on Andrey Bely - by V. N. Demin,M. L. Spivak and A. V. Lavrov - and discusses different approaches to the interpretation of the personality and works of this Symbolist writer. Noteworthy, all three reviewed books contain new biographic and archival materials and demonstrated the complexity and contradictions of his personality
The dreams of Noosphere: New books on Andrey Bely
No full textThe article reviews three new books on Andrey Bely - by V. N. Demin,M. L. Spivak and A. V. Lavrov - and discusses different approaches to the interpretation of the personality and works of this Symbolist writer. Noteworthy, all three reviewed books contain new biographic and archival materials and demonstrated the complexity and contradictions of his personality
THE HERO'S ROAD TO CALVARY: OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW TESTAMENT MOTIFS IN ”MOSCOW“ BY ANDREY BELY
No full textThe aim of our article is to discover biblical allusions, motifs and plots in Andrey Bely's last and least studied novel, Moscow (1925-1930). Besides the biblical plane (both Old and New Testaments), the novel features a lot of eschatological imagery. We have analysed the key scenes of the novel where biblical motifs and imagery acquire the status of a sign. Our analysis allowed us to conclude that the Gospel plane of the text helps the reader comprehend the overall idea of the novel, i.e. the protagonist's initiation, his departure from the Old Testament regulations to the Christian idea of mercy and compassion, as well his discovery of the spiritual laws of nature and the universe. The image of the eccentric in the novel helps us more profoundly understand the continuity and transformation of the biblical, eschatological and anthroposophic motifs throughout the whole creative heritage of Andrey Bely
The inferno of Stanislaw Przybyszewski in relation to russian literature
No full textThe author interprets The scream, novel written by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, on the background of Russian literature (Andrey Bely, Gogol, Sologub)
Ibsen in Russia Revisited: The Ibsenian Legacy in the Writings of the Russian Symbolist Andrey Bely
No full textThe intellectual atmosphere of Russian fin de siècle was characterized by a strong fascination for Norway, its nature, its culture and its literature. A good example is Henrik Ibsen who was a significant source of inspiration for Russian dramatists, writers and poets. The Russian symbolists in particular saw Ibsen as a tutelary spirit and not least the “younger” symbolist Andrey Bely regarded his works and thoughts as a prefiguration and a foreshadowing of his own. Ibsen was important to Bely through all his various stages of intellectual, artistic and spiritual seeking and in accordance with Bely’s highly interpretative, hermeneutical approach to the world, in which everything he experienced was transformed to confirm his own symbolist Weltanschauung, also Ibsen was transformed in much the same manner. And the very intriguing way in which Bely rewrites the Norwegian playwright into his own writings will be the main topic of this article, illustrating how the Russian symbolist refigures the Norwegian dramatist to make him fit into his own continuous search for new and meaningful perspectives and positions. Moreover and even still more remarkable, this search convincingly demonstrates how the Ibsenian legacy throughout the many different phases of Bely’s creative development keeps it crucial place within Bely’s life cycle, thereby establishing a most interesting thread in the complex web of Ibsen’s Wirkungsgeschichte
M. M. Bakhtin and the Russian Symbolists
Get PDFВ статье рассматривается влияние русских символистов, в том числе Андрея Белого, на М. М. Бахтина.This article deals with the influence that the Russian symbolists, including Andrey Bely, had on M. M. Bakhtin
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