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An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, this book is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. The text explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic …
Introduction -- Response, imitation, and parody -- Laughably modern : the Russian readers' early encounters with symbolism and decadence -- Russian symbolists and Russia's symbolists -- Fashioning symbolism -- Making the symbolist book -- Symbolist by association : almanacs, cyc…
The Institutions of Russian Modernism illuminates the key role of Symbolism as the earliest form of modernism in Russia, emerging seemingly ex nihilo at the end of the nineteenth century. Combining book history, periodical studies, and reception theory, Jonathan Stone examines t…
Chapter Introduction: Depuis Mallarmé -- chapter 1 Hegel: The End of Art -- chapter 2 Hérodiade and the Conception of the 'Œuvre pure' -- chapter 3 'Le Drame solaire': Sonnet allégorique de lui-même -- chapter 4 L'Espace littéraire -- chapter 5 La Dissémination. "The writings o…
"The writings of the great Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) were to become uniquely influential in twentieth century literary criticism. For critics and philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, Mallarmé's name came to represent a rupture in literary…
"The writings of the great Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) were to become uniquely influential in twentieth century literary criticism. For critics and philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques derrida, Mallarme's name came to represent a rupture in literary…
"The writings of the great Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) were to become uniquely influential in twentieth century literary criticism. For critics and philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, Mallarmé's name came to represent a rupture in literary…