Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday

by Stephen C. Hutchings

Book Overview

This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as neutral and normative,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024498
• ISBN13: 9780521024495
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"