Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia
Envy and Authorship in the 1920s
In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia's volatile axiological hierarchy. Industriousness and austerity, inferior to playful genius in Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri, became virtues, while the intrinsic value of nonutilitarian art was officially nullified by the Bolshevik state. Consequently, a new literary type emerged, and envy, described as wingless desire by Russia's chief poet Alexander Pushkin, obtained new ownership…
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- ISBN: 978-1-79360-558-0
- EAN: 9781793605580
- Produktnummer: 34619331
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 610 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 610
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