Shapes of Apocalypse : : arts and philosophy in Slavic thought /

Shapes of Apocalypse : : arts and philosophy in Slavic thought / / edited by Andrea Oppo.

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This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of "apocalypse," within some key examples in the "Slavic world" during the nineteenth and twentieth century. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth centu...

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Superior document:Myths and taboos in Russian culture
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Oppo, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Academic Studies Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Myths and taboos in Russian culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (285 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Philosophy
  • The tilted pillar : Rozanov and the Apocalypse / Giancarlo Baffo
  • Salvation without redemption : phenomenology of (pre)-history in Patočka's late work / Riccardo Paparusso
  • Part Two. Literature
  • The sacrament of end : the theme of Apocalypse in three works by Gogol / Vladimir Glyantz
  • Apocalyptic imagery in Dostoevskij's The idiot and The devils / William J. Leatherbarrow
  • Black blood, white roses : Apocalypse and redemption in Blok's later poetry / Irene Masing-Delić
  • Apocalypse and Golgotha in Miroslav Krleža's Olden days : memoirs and diaries 1914-1921/1922 / Suzana Marjanić
  • Part Three. Music and visual arts
  • The apocalyptic dispersion of light into poetry and music : Aleksandr Skrjabin in the Russian religious imagination / Polina Dimova
  • From the Peredvižniki's realism to Lenin's mausoleum : the two poles of an apocalyptic-palingenetic path / Chiara Cantelli
  • Theatre at the limit : Jerzy Grotowski's Apocalypsis cum figuris / Andrea Oppo
  • On Apocalypse, witches and desiccated trees : a reading of Andrej Tarkovskij's The sacrifice / Alessio Scarlato.

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