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The Russian revival of the dithyramb : a modernist use of antiquity
- Title
- The Russian revival of the dithyramb : a modernist use of antiquity / Katherine Lahti.
- Author
- Lahti, Katherine
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [ 2018].
- ©2018
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- Description
- 374 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Early twentieth-century Russia witnessed a revival of the dithyramb, a poetic form of verse and dance that ancient Greeks performed to summon Dionysus. The Russian Revival of the Dithyramb offers a fascinating account of this resurrection and traces the form's surprising influence on Russian identity and art in the work of artists, writers, and musicians as varied as Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Bely, Aleksei Remizov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Igor Stravinsky. Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Viacheslav Ivanov's treatise in response, "The Hellenic Religion of the Suffering God," have been considered the foundation of the dithyramb revival, but Katherine Lahti shows that Erwin Rohde's Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks also played a significant role. Lahti follows the persistence of the dithyramb's popularity with the Sumbolists and the Futurists through 1917, when it enjoyed a special place in Russian culture during the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution. Demonstrating the influence of the dithyramb on the development of Russian avant-garde culture, this book reshapes our understanding of an extraordinary dynamic period in Russian art and thought--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Russian literature and theory (SRLT)
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Russian literature and theory.
- Subjects
- Art and literature
- Russian poetry
- Russia
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dithyramb
- 1900-1999
- Civilization
- Russian literature > 20th century
- Russian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Arts > Russia > 20th century > Greek influences
- Russia > Civilization > 20th century
- Art and literature > Russia > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Dancing the dithyramb--Pages 221-236.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Archaic Greek dithyramb in Russia, for the Russians -- Evolution and the dithyramb -- Early symbolist interest in the dithyramb -- Viacheslav Ivanov and the dithyramb -- Fyodor Sologub's dithyrambs -- More symbolist dithyrambs after Ivanov -- Futurist dithyrambs -- Mayakovsky's dithyrambs -- Dancing the dithyramb -- Meyerhold and Evreinov do the dithyramb -- The dithyramb after the 1917 Revolution -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- *MGRZ 18-3056
- ISBN
- 9780810136700
- 0810136708
- 9780810136694
- 0810136694
- LCCN
- 2017053471
- 99977229267
- OCLC
- 996407168
- Author
- Lahti, Katherine, author.
- Title
- The Russian revival of the dithyramb : a modernist use of antiquity / Katherine Lahti.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [ 2018].
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in Russian literature and theory (SRLT)Studies in Russian literature and theory.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99977229267
- Research Call Number
- *MGRZ 18-3056