Many studies have drawn comparisons between Russian Modernism and its European counterpart. Martha Kelly's is the first to show that a significant point of difference between them emerges with an understanding of the influence of Russian Orthodoxy on key literary works of the first half of the twentieth century. Kelly contends that it was not just thematically that this influence can be detected, but rather that an entire poetics was shaped by it. Specifically, Russian Orthodoxy held out the possibility of unification of spirit and matter as well as a host of other dichotomies, such as...
Many studies have drawn comparisons between Russian Modernism and its European counterpart. Martha Kelly's is the first to show that a significant poi...