Fallacy of the Silver Age in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Fallacy of the Silver Age in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Sign/Text/Culture: Studies in Slavic and Comparative Semioti)
RONEN,
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9057025507
DDC: 891
Edition: Paperback; 1997-03-01
Summary:
While rigorously living up to the best traditions of
literary-historical scholarship, the author manages to present his
material in a light-hearted and entertaining way which will fascinate
both the scholar of Russian literature and the interested observer of
Russian culture alike.In this highly original study, Omry Ronnen
critically examines the term "Silver Age", which over the years has
gained such wide currency among historians and connoisseurs of 20th
century Russian culture. The author traces the origin and the
controversial development of what he condemns as an influential
misnomer. "I do not know who was the first to use this appellation,
on whom the blame for launching it falls," lamented the late
Russian-American literary historian, Gleb Struve. Ronen sets out to
debunk the myth that attributes invention of the term to Nikolai
Berdiaev, and in turn traces this widely used catchword in the
critical idiom from an obscure, avante-garde manifesto to the present
day. He convincingly lay
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