Poetry and Psychiatry : : essays on early twentieth-century Russian symbolist culture / / Magnus Ljunggren ; translated by Charles Rougle.
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described in Bely's powerful prose masterpiece Petersburg, which serves as the connec...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Brighton, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (151 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Andrey Bely and the philosopher's nephew
- Bely and Aleksandr Blok
- The symbolist with two careers
- Symbolism's charlatan
- Oracle or quack?
- Janko Lavrin, Pan-Slavist across the spectrum
- The "Swede" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian culture, and his daughter
- Blok and Strindberg's face
- The early break through of psychoanalysis in Russia
- Anthroposophy's decade in Russia
- Bely's encounter with Rudolf Steiner
- Freud's unknown Russian patient
- Emilii Medtner and Carl Gustav Jung
- Boris Pasternak and Goethe
- Marietta Shaginyan and Verner von Heidenstam.