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Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts(Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)

Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts(Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)


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In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. 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 Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Table of Contents:
PrefaceChapter 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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"An interdisciplinary creative space is a complex thing. It is home not only to plot, language, structure, but also to whole worlds. In this provocative collection of essays, Ksana Blank shows us some unexpected corners of these worlds: the great Realist novelists shunning the railroad, Shostakovich finding poetry in Dostoevsky, the absurdist Kharms weighing in on a religious controversy, Dobuzhinsky becoming a visual chronicler of Petersburg, Tolstoy anticipating the thinking of Malevich, and Nabokov’s nymphet drowning in Pushkinian subtexts. Works we know by heart are estranged and refreshed by these resourceful angles of vision." As a collection of thoughtful essays on the ostensibly ‘peripheral’ themes of several major authors, Blank’s volume should hold interest for literary scholars in a number of fields, and it would also serve well as a textbook for interdisciplinary surveys of modern Russian literature. “Taken as a whole, Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts reflects the creative and energetic mind of its author, Ksana Blank. In six discrete essays—four of which have been published previously in earlier iterations—Blank celebrates what she calls the ‘affinities’ between classic works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Russian literature, music, visual arts, and religious philosophy. In seeking these moments of productive resonance, she boldly abandons the conventional boundaries of historical periodization, just as she does the space across media and disciplines, in order to make visible the fascinating, and often quite unexpected lines of influence and confluence between her primary subjects and their works.“ —Molly Brunson, Yale University, Slavic and East European Journal


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  • ISBN-13: 9781618115409
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Series Title: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1618115405
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Sub Title: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts


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