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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Silver Age"”.
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The Syntax of the Finite Forms and the nominal Forms fo the Verb in Quintus Curtius'"History of Alexander, Bk. IX"
… conformity with or departure from classical usage. In using the chronological label, 'classical', I have adopted the following chronological scheme where a chronological label is called for in the text:</p> <p>Early Latin Century B.C. - 2kO B.C.</p> <p>Ante-Classical 240 B.C. (Plautus and …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… and stimulated the emergence of original stage practices. I discuss several plays that contributed significantly to the national discourse and stage history, written by the following major and minor authors: Alexander Sumarokov, Alexander Pushkin, Matvei Kriukovskii, Nestor Kukol’nik, …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
… of change and confusion eerily echoed by the Silver Age, Briusov diagnosed his and Petrovskaia’s quest for mystical experience as an encounter with demonomania, a medieval condition indicative of demonic possession that afflicted witch and saint alike and whose signs and symptoms corresponded …
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The Feminine Eros as the motive force of Russian history: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s intertextual dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva
… their many connections on the level of themes, imagery, and formal devices to the poetry of the Russian Silver Age (1910–1923) and, especially, to the verse of the lyrical modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (poems dating from 1910–1923). As in the case of Solzhenitsyn’s narratives, in Tsvetaeva’s …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… from the current scholarly re-evaluation of Silver Age Epic as the great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious criticism of the nineteenth century, obsessed as it was with its twin …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… twentieth-century Russian philosophy of language, and reveals his capacity to revitalise conversations in Western metaphysics and philosophy of language. The work of Bulgakov has been the object of increasing attention in Christian theology, fuelled by the recent translation of Bulgakov’s …