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Author:

Kostetskaya, Anastasia, author.

Title:

Russian symbolism in search of transcendental liquescence : iconizing emotion by blending time, media, and the senses / Anastasia Kostetskaya.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxviii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
Symbolism (Literary movement)--Russia.
Emotions in literature.
Symbolism (Art movement)--Russia--History--20th century.
Emotions in art.
Symbolism in motion pictures--History--20th century.
Emotions in motion pictures--History--20th century.
Symbolism in motion pictures.
Symbolism (Art movement)
Emotions in motion pictures.
Symbolism (Literary movement)
Emotions in art.
Emotions in literature.
Russia.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-149) and index.

Contents:

Symbolist arts as forms symbolic of human feeling -- Liquescence: the master metaphor for blending strategies -- In boundlessness: the ocean of surging emotion in Konstantin Bal'mont's cognitive poetics -- Quiet flows the soul across the boundless and beyond: Viktor Borisov-Musatov's symbolist painting -- Symbolism in flux: the moving image as transcendent emotion -- Afterword: The Dying Swan: the transcendent body image on symbolist screen.

Summary:

"This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links between symbolist poetry, paintings, and cinema and their evoked sensory-emotional imagery in the context of iconicity and conceptual blending"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Crosscurrents: Russia's literature in context

ISBN:

1498591825
9781498591829

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091372861

LCCN:

2019016681

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)