A Culture of Discontinuity?: Russian Cultural Debates in Historical Perspective (Cultural History and Literary Imagination, 34)

This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how Russian culture has evolved to this day. It covers a broad range of Russian life, literature and arts, and sets debates in historical perspective. Cover Contents A Note to Reader Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Continuity behind Rupture (Olga Tabachnikova) PART I Russian History as Ideological Narrative: Continuities and Breaks 1 Historical Background of Russian Literature (Olha Chervinska / Aleksandr Sych) 2 Athena versus Gaia: Ideology and Being in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Prishvin, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Aleksandr A. Medvedev) 3 Political Terrorism of the Early Twentieth Century in the Context of Russian Cultural Consciousness (Lidia I. Shishkina) 4 Economic Thought as a Mirror of Cultural Debates: The Ideology of Westernism and Slavophilism in Modern Russia (Natalia Vinokurova / Olga Tabachnikova) PART II Ways and Waves of Cultural Development in the Russian Literary Mirror 5 Rift versus Attraction as the Receptive Motivators of Russian Culture (Olha Chervinska) 6 Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poetry as an Embodiment of Russian Cultural Dialectic of Rupture and Continuity (Sarah Ossipow Cheang) 7 Creative Personality as an Indicator and Formula for the Discontinuity/Continuity of Culture: Yevgeny Zamyatin (Larisa V. Polyakova) 8 ‘Ah, they’ll be driven off to the steppes, my Harlequins...’: Pnin the Wanderer as an Incarnation of Russian Fin de Siècle Culture Abroad (Elena Tchougounova-Paulson) 9 Cultural Transfer and Continuity: Gothic in the Russian ‘Estate Text’ (Elena V. Glukhova) 10 Continuities and Discontinuities of Russian Culture through the Prism of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (Vladimir Golstein) PART III From Literature to Performing Arts: Shifts of Cultural Paradigm 11 The Problem of Continuity in S. I. Taneev’s Views on the Future of Russian Music (Galima Lukina) 12 Silver Age Aesthetics versus New Conceptions of Soviet Time in Music: Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past? (Elena Artamonova) 13 The Old Roots of the New Era: From Leonid Andreev to Sergei Eisenstein, the Unknown Connection (Natalia Skorokhod) 14 The Phoenix’s Rebirth from Its Ashes: Russian Dance in the Twentieth Century (Elena Yushkova) 15 Russian Drama of the Twentieth Century as an Imported Commodity: The Transgression of Transfer (Lyudmil Dimitrov) 16 Russian Classics in the Mirror of Vasily Sigarev’s Remakes (Margarita Odesskaya) Notes on Contributors Index Series Index