Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980: Music for a Deaf Age

ISBN-13: 9781909662926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 234 str.

Josephine Von Zitzewitz

Opis

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called 37 . The group and its journal offered a platform to poets who subsequently entered the canon of Russian verse, such as Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010). Josephine von Zitzewitz s new study focuses on the Seminar s identification of culture and spirituality, which allowed Leningrad s unofficial culture to tap into the spirit of Russian modernism, as can be seen in 37 . This book is thus a study of a major current in twentieth-century Russian poetry, and an enquiry into the intersection between literary and spiritual concerns. But it also presents case studies of five poets from a special generation: not only Krivulin and Shvarts, but also Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) and Aleksandr Mironov (1948-2010)."

Spis treści

1 The Religious-Philosophical Seminar (Религиозно-философский семинар), Leningrad, 1974–1980  2 Viktor Krivulin: The Quest for a New Sacred Language  3 Aleksandr Mironov: Christianity of the Absurd  4 Elena Shvarts: Incarnation Inverted  5 Oleg Okhapkin: Poetry as Liturgy  6 Sergei Stratanovskii: Christianity and Historiography

 

O autorze

Josephine von Zitzewitz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge.