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Optical play : glass, vision, and spectacle in Russian culture

Title
Optical play : glass, vision, and spectacle in Russian culture / Julia Bekman Chadaga.
Author
Chadaga, Julia Bekman
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

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Description
xv, 315 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
Uniform Title
Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Subject
  • Russian literature > History and criticism
  • Glass in literature
  • Vision in literature
  • Glass > Social aspects > Russia
  • Vision > Social aspects > Russia
  • Glass construction > Social aspects > Russia
  • Literatur
  • Russisch
  • Glas
  • Vision
  • Sehen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Looking through glass : the transformation of vision -- The language of glass : making rhetorical objects -- The display of power : spectacular glass in Imperial Russia -- Glass architecture : glimpses of utopia -- The glass house as dream and nightmare -- Light in captivity : the glass object as ideological spectacle -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780810130036
  • 0810130033
  • 9780810167889
  • 0810167883
LCCN
  • 2014018889
  • 40024677749
OCLC
  • 879583912
  • ocn879583912
  • SCSB-5795723
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries