Metamorphosis in Russian Modernism

Examines metamorphoses in the works of prominent representatives of the divided Russian intelligentsia: the Symbolists; the most famous emigre writer, Nabokov; Olesha, the 'fellow traveller' attempting to find his place in the Soviet state; the enthusiastic poet of the Bolshevik movement, Mayakovsky; and finally, Russia's greatest film director, Sergei Eisenstein.

It is futile to try to understand Russian civilisation let alone predict its future without considering the intellectual, social and emotional reasons why it is not at rest with itself. It is to this end that this volume hopes to make a contribution.

Introduction: Russian Literature and the Metamorphic Theme

1

(14)

Peter I. Barta

Echo and Narcissus in Russian Symbolism

15

(26)

Peter I. Barta

The Transformation Myth in Russian Modernism: Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotsky

41

(20)

Joan Delaney Grossman

Pythagoras and the Butterfly: Nabokov's Ovidian Metamorphoses

61

(28)

David H. J. Larmour

Ovidian Intertexts in Olesha's `The Cherry Stone': The Metamorphosis of Metamorphosis

89

(24)

Stephen Hutchings

Sansculotte Improvisers and Clouds in Trousers: Poetic Metamorphosis in Pushkin and Mayakovsky

113

(36)

Irene Masing-Delic

Savage Thinking: Metamorphosis in the Cinema of S. M. Eisenstein

149

(32)

Anne Nesbet

List of Contributors

181

(2)

Index

183

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