Petersburg/Petersburg : novel and city, 1900-1921

Petersburg/Petersburg novel and city, 1900-1921

Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the aristocratic center to the gritty outskirts. While Tsar Peter the Great planned the streetsc...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Matich, Olga (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press c2010.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31295289*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Olga Matich
  • I. Petersburg, the Novel
  • 1. Backs, Suddenlys, and Surveillance / Olga Matich
  • 2. Poetics of Disgust: To Eat and Die in Petersburg / Olga Matich
  • 3. Bely, Kandinsky, and Avant-Garde Aesthetics / Olga Matich
  • II. Petersburg, the City
  • 4. "The Streetcar Prattle of Life": Reading and Riding St. Petersburg's Trams / Alyson Tapp
  • 5. How Terrorists Learned to Map: Plotting in Petersburg and Boris Savinkov's Recollections of a Terrorist and The Pale Horse / Alexis Peri and Christine Evans
  • 6. The Enchanted Masquerade: Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show from the Stage to the Streets / Cameron Wiggins
  • 7. Panoramas from Above and Street from Below: The Petersburg of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Mikhail Kuzmin / Ulla Hakanen
  • 8. The Button and the Barricade: Bridges in Paris and Petersburg / Lucas Stratton
  • 9. 28 Nevsky Prospect: The Sewing Machine, the Seamstress, and Narrative / Olga Matich
  • 10. Meat in Russia's Modernist Imagination / Mieka Erley
  • 11. The Fluid Margins: Fl226;neurs of the Karpovka River / Polina Barskova
  • 12. The Voices of Silence: The Death and Funeral of Alexander Blok / Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
  • Concluding Remarks / Olga Matich
  • Postscript. St. Petersburg: New Architecture and Old Mythology / Gregory Kaganov
  • Contributors
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares