{"product_id":"spaces-of-creativity-essays-on-russian-literature-and-the-arts-9781618115409","title":"Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Taken as a whole, \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e reflects the creative and energetic mind of its author, Ksana Blank. In six discrete essays—four of which have been published previously in earlier iterations—Blank celebrates what she calls the ‘affinities’ between classic works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Russian literature, music, visual arts, and religious philosophy. In seeking these moments of productive resonance, she boldly abandons the conventional boundaries of historical periodization, just as she does the space across media and disciplines, in order to make visible the fascinating, and often quite unexpected lines of influence and confluence between her primary subjects and their works.“ —Molly Brunson, Yale University, \u003ci\u003eSlavic and East European Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Sex, Crime, and Railroads in Dostoevsky’s \u003ci\u003eIdiot\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy’s \u003ci\u003eKreutzer Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. “Horror—Red, White, and Square”: Abstract Images in Tolstoy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Dobuzhinsky’s Farewell to Petersburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Praising the Name: The Religious Theme in Daniil Kharms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Nabokov’s Nymphet and Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eWater-Nymph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Captain Lebyadkin’s Poetry in Shostakovich and Dostoevsky\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359752094039,"sku":"9781618115409","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115409.jpg?v=1754125602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spaces-of-creativity-essays-on-russian-literature-and-the-arts-9781618115409","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}