Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese aesthetics : the other is the universal /
This book re-evaluates Russia's place in global modernism by highlighting the enduring yet understudied impact of China on prerevolutionary Russian literature and art. It moves beyond the idea that Russian literary and artistic representations of China were simply manifestations of Russia'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Global Asias.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book re-evaluates Russia's place in global modernism by highlighting the enduring yet understudied impact of China on prerevolutionary Russian literature and art. It moves beyond the idea that Russian literary and artistic representations of China were simply manifestations of Russia's imperial ideology and Eurasian cultural identity. Instead, this book contends that literature and art actively renegotiated and destabilized the preconceived world order at a time of intensifying geopolitical and cultural transformation, when China shifted from Russia's rival in Inner Asia to a target in the competition of global imperialist powers. Examining Lev Tolstoy's translations of the Daoist texts, Aleksei Remizov's adaptations of Chinese ghost stories, Innokenty Annensky's encounter with the Tibetan monk in Paris, and many Russian modernist anthologies of Chinese poetry, this book provides a new understanding of modernism's reception of foreign culture: it is a search for a higher universal in the age of heightened global interconnectedness. The book offers critical insights and tells new stories for scholars of global modernism, Sino-Russian relations, East-West poetics, translation studies, and early-twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198920427 0198920423 0198920415 9780198920410 |