Publisher:
Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
A highly significant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an...
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A highly significant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an attempt is made to show that the proliferation of the new cultural idiom was indicative of the fundamental concerns of the time and intimately related to the development of artistic thought. Although the theme is considered in its cultural totality (visual arts, literature and drama), the work is focused on symbolist poetry. It provides a close analys
Contents 7; List of Illustrations 9; Preface 11; Acknowledgments 15; Introduction 17; Chapter One Harlequinade and Symbolist Art 23; Chapter Two Self and Other in Symbolist Aesthetics 85; Chapter Three Masks, Harlequins and Otherness in the Image Systems of Blok and Belyi 117; Chapter Four The Language of the Mask 157; Chapter Five 'Poetry is Both Sense and Sound' 199; Epilogue 257; Appendix 259; Bibliography 281; Index 293;
