Description
Book SynopsisAndrei Bely's 1913 masterwork
Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. This volume summarises the intellectual and artistic contexts that informed
Petersburg's creation and reception, and reviews the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel.
Trade ReviewThe fifteen distinguished contributors do more than elucidate a world-class novel. They provide capsule courses on a spectrum of topics that mattered deeply to Andrei Bely but are obscure to many readers today: anthroposophy, neoKantianism, 'life-creation,' racial thinking, political terrorism. A path-breaking literary portal." - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
"Succeeds in making a challenging modernist novel more accessible to nonspecialists. Students and fans of Bely's work at every level will appreciate this fine and informative critical companion to
Petersburg." - Emily Johnson, author of
How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself"A timely and useful guide for those reading and teaching Bely's brilliant modernist novel. This volume makes Bely's fascinating masterpiece more accessible to those outside Russian studies." -
ChoiceTable of Contents
- Introduction
- Leonid Livak
- On Translating Petersburg, John Elsworth
- Part One. The Intellectual Context
- Revolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in Petersburg, Lynn E. Patyk
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Petersburg and Modern Occultism, Maria Carlson
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Petersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism, Edith W. Clowes
- Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg, Timothy Langen
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Petersburg and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Hilary Fink
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Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology, Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
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Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought, Henrietta Mondry
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Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction, David M. Bethea
- Part Two. The Aesthetic Context
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Petersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature, Steven Cassedy
- Theatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Colleen McQuillen
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Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words, Olga Matich
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Petersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist Novel, Taras Koznarsky
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Petersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction, Violeta Sotirova
- Aids for Reading and Studying Petersburg
- An Annotated Synopsis, Leonid Livak
- Recommended Critical Literature in English
- Index
