| Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980: Music for a Deaf Age Contributor(s): Von Zitzewitz, Josephine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367598426 ISBN-13: 9780367598426 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.714 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6.5" W x 9.8" (0.65 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |