Ksana Blank

Spaces of Creativity (ENG)

Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Kharms, Malevich, Dobuzhinsky, and Shostakovich.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781618115409
• ISBN-10: 1618115405
• Artikelnr.: 45546996

Autorenporträt

Ksana Blank is a senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (2010) and Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration and Translation Illustrations Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Sex, Crime, and Railroads in Dostoevsky's Idiot and Tolstoy's
Kreutzer Sonata
Chapter 2. "Horror-Red, White, and Square": Abstract Images in Tolstoy
Chapter 3. Dobuzhinsky's Farewell to Petersburg
Chapter 4. Praising the Name: The Religious Theme in Daniil Kharms
Chapter 5. Nabokov's Nymphet and Pushkin's Water-Nymph
Chapter 6. Captain Lebyadkin's Poetry in Shostakovich and Dostoevsky
Index