Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia : Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture

189 p.

• Information

  ISBN: 9788866558224

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  SERIES

  Biblioteca di studi slavistici ; 28
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • General history of Europe Eastern Europe Soviet Union
  • Slavic, Baltic, Albanian Languages, Russian Language and Literature

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Russian literature -- History and criticism
  • Melancholy in literature
  • Nostalgia in literature
  • Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
  • Melancholy in art
  • Nostalgia in art
  • Jews -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life
  • Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life
  • Soviet Union -- Intellectual life
  • Russia -- Intellectual life
• In this volume

  • Preface
  • Chronotopes of Affectivity in Literature : on Melancholy, Estrangement and Reflective Nostalgia
  • Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska
  • Nostalgia and Creaturality in H. Leivick's Тhe Golem
  • Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij
  • Melancholic Humor, Skepticism and Reflective Nostalgia : Igor' Guberman's Poetics of Paradox
  • The Presence of Absence : Longing and Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Art and Literature
  • Bibliography