Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia : Envy and Authorship in the 1920s EPUB
by Yelena Zotova
Part of the Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context series
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In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia's volatile axiological hierarchy. Industriousness and austerity, inferior to playful genius in Pushkin's ';Mozart and Salieri,' became virtues, while the intrinsic value of nonutilitarian art was officially nullified by the Bolshevik state.Consequently, a new literary type emerged, and envy, described as ';wingless desire' by Russia's chief poet Alexander Pushkin, obtained new ownership as the envied became the envier. Superimposing twentieth-century theories of envy onto Mikhail Bakhtin's ';Author and Hero in the Aesthetic Activity' (1923), Zotova proposes that Salieri's envy could be the wingless embryo of the Bakhtinian authorship.
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- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:10/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781793605597
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- Pages:296 pages
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