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Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context Ser.: Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence : Iconizing Emotion by Blending Time, Media, and the Senses by Anastasia Kostetskaya (2019, Hardcover)
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PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-101498591825
ISBN-139781498591829
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038416155
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRussian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence : Iconizing Emotion by Blending Time, Media, and the Senses
Publication Year2019
SubjectRussian & Former Soviet Union
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorAnastasia Kostetskaya
SeriesCrosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-016681
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"In this innovative study of Russian Symbolism, Anastasia Kostetskaya blends cognitive psychology with literary analysis to offer a new framework for analyzing aesthetic links across a range of artistic media. As a pioneering attempt to meld distinctive theoretical approaches and artistic genres, it will be of interest to scholars of Russian literature, art and film, as well as analysts of the broader cultural-intellectual history of the Silver Age." -- The Russian Review "A breath of fresh air in Slavic Studies, Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence offers a genuinely new word in scholarship on Russian Symbolism across several genres. Proceeding from cognitive linguistics, it argues persuasively for the saliency of liquescence and its inseparability from The Feminine in the Symbolist aspiration to transcendence. Anastasia Kostetskaya's intellectually bold, nuanced analyses of illustrative works by Blok, Bal'mont, Borisov-Musatov, and Evgenii Bauer elaborate her revelatory thesis in the spheres of poetry, painting, ballet, and film. Conceptual precision, rewarding attention to detail, and an assured command of materials distinguish this intriguing monograph. Provocative and pathbreaking, it is bound to stimulate lively debate and, optimally, foster kindred inter/multidisciplinary studies." --Helena Goscilo, The Ohio State University "From the sensorial poetry of Konstantin Balmont, to the aqueous settings of Viktor Borisov-Musatov's ethereal tableaux, ending with the dying swan in Evgenii Bauer's cinema, the author captures the iconic agency of liquefaction as an expression of the sensation of transcendence in fin-de-siècle Russia. Expanding on the metaphor of water, the author dwells on the trope of water's fluidity that penetrates, absorbs, and seeps into otherwise impermeable material to bring under close scrutiny its linguistic, imagistic, and kinesthetic transfer onto the work of three major figures of Russia's Silver Age. Kostetskaya's probing insight offers a most extraordinary examination of a singular Symbolist metaphor with the promise of long-term consequences for trans-medial studies in the modernist era. Such a rarified focus shifts our conventional wisdom surrounding the denouement of a cultural era and its aesthetic towards a new and revitalized vision of the totalizing nature of early twentieth century modernism." --Myroslava M. Mudrak, The Ohio State University, From the sensorial poetry of Konstantin Balmont, to the aqueous settings of Viktor Borisov-Musatov's ethereal tableaux, ending with the dying swan in Evgenii Bauer's cinema, the author captures the iconic agency of liquefaction as an expression of the sensation of transcendence in fin-de-siècle Russia. Expanding on the metaphor of water, the author dwells on the trope of water's fluidity that penetrates, absorbs, and seeps into otherwise impermeable material to bring under close scrutiny its linguistic, imagistic, and kinesthetic transfer onto the work of three major figures of Russia's Silver Age. Kostetskaya's probing insight offers a most extraordinary examination of a singular Symbolist metaphor with the promise of long-term consequences for trans-medial studies in the modernist era. Such a rarified focus shifts our conventional wisdom surrounding the denouement of a cultural era and its aesthetic towards a new and revitalized vision of the totalizing nature of early twentieth century modernism., In this innovative study of Russian Symbolism, Anastasia Kostetskaya blends cognitive psychology with literary analysis to offer a new framework for analyzing aesthetic links across a range of artistic media. As a pioneering attempt to meld distinctive theoretical approaches and artistic genres, it will be of interest to scholars of Russian literature, art and film, as well as analysts of the broader cultural-intellectual history of the Silver Age., A breath of fresh air in Slavic Studies, Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence offers a genuinely new word in scholarship on Russian Symbolism across several genres. Proceeding from cognitive linguistics, it argues persuasively for the saliency of liquescence and its inseparability from The Feminine in the Symbolist aspiration to transcendence. Anastasia Kostetskaya's intellectually bold, nuanced analyses of illustrative works by Blok, Bal'mont, Borisov-Musatov, and Evgenii Bauer elaborate her revelatory thesis in the spheres of poetry, painting, ballet, and film. Conceptual precision, rewarding attention to detail, and an assured command of materials distinguish this intriguing monograph. Provocative and pathbreaking, it is bound to stimulate lively debate and, optimally, foster kindred inter/multidisciplinary studies.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal891.70915
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Symbolist Arts as Forms Symbolic of Human Feeling Chapter One: Liquescence: The Master Metaphor for Blending Strategies Chapter Two: In Boundlessness: The Ocean of Surging Emotion in Konstantin Bal'mont's Cognitive Poetics Chapter Three: Quiet Flows the Soul across the Boundless and Beyond: Viktor Borisov-Musatov's Symbolist Painting Chapter Four: Symbolism in Flux: The Moving Image as Transcendent Emotion Afterword: ?he Dying Swan: The Transcendent Body Image on Symbolist Screen
SynopsisThe book examines Russian symbolist texts and turns the focus from their traditional historic-cultural interpretations to analyze the symbolist cognitive aesthetics-aesthetics that govern links between poetry, art, and cinema and the sensory-emotional imagery they evoke. This aesthetics inextricably map mystical transcendence to a spiritual world-a realibus ad realiora-through fluid transmutation. Anastasia Kostetskaya presents an innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of iconicity-a relationship of resemblance between the artistic form and its meaning, the possibilities of which symbolist artists explored to create sublime emotional experiences for the reader or viewer. She challenges the strictly dualistic and hierarchical terms of traditional symbolist concepts. This study demonstrates that this counterdualistic tendency cognitively extends from liquescence-a perception of fluid continuity between people and water. This analysis of interconnected symbolist media shows how symbolists rely on blending in their attempts to engender emotional flux through the pliable form. Fusing cognitivist and historic-cultural approaches in fluidly connected art modes, this book represents chronological, conceptual, and aesthetic continuity from poetry by Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942), paintings by Viktor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905), and cinematography by Evgenii Bauer (1865-1917)., The book examines Russian symbolist texts and turns the focus from their traditional historic-cultural interpretations to analyze the symbolist cognitive aesthetics--aesthetics that govern links between poetry, art, and cinema and the sensory-emotional imagery they evoke. This aesthetics inextricably map mystical transcendence to a spiritual world--a realibus ad realiora--through fluid transmutation. Anastasia Kostetskaya presents an innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of iconicity--a relationship of resemblance between the artistic form and its meaning, the possibilities of which symbolist artists explored to create sublime emotional experiences for the reader or viewer. She challenges the strictly dualistic and hierarchical terms of traditional symbolist concepts. This study demonstrates that this counterdualistic tendency cognitively extends from liquescence--a perception of fluid continuity between people and water. This analysis of interconnected symbolist media shows how symbolists rely on blending in their attempts to engender emotional flux through the pliable form. Fusing cognitivist and historic-cultural approaches in fluidly connected art modes, this book represents chronological, conceptual, and aesthetic continuity from poetry by Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942), paintings by Viktor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905), and cinematography by Evgenii Bauer (1865-1917)., This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links between symbolist poetry, paintings, and cinema and their evoked sensory-emotional imagery in the context of iconicity and conceptual blending.
LC Classification NumberPG2987
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