"What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentie…
"What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentie…
Anxiety and the Russian Silver Age -- Literature and revolution : the case of Aleksandr Blok -- The Russian Silver Age : its makers and undertakers -- No "room of her own" : Anna Akhmatova's tenure in Soviet culture -- The winged eavesdropper : Kuzmin and Nabokov -- The Silver A…
Russian modernists viewed art as a creative force destined to create not artistic texts, but life itself, and viewed life as an artistic creation. Originating in Russian Symbolism of the 1890's, these views continued into the 1920's and 1930's, informing Futurism and early Sovie…
