The Word Made Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860–1930 - Couverture rigide

Seifrid, Thomas J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801443164 ISBN 13 : 9780801443169

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2005

Synopsis

When Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one of the most powerful themes in his culture. In The Word Made Self, Thomas Seifrid explores this Russian fascination with the power of the word as expressed in the work of philosophers, theologians, and artists of the Silver Age and early Soviet period. He shows that their diverse works (poems, novels, philosophical and religious tracts) share an attempt to articulate "a model of selfhood within the phenomenon of language." The thinkers included in this book--among them Pavel Florenskii, Roman Jakobson, Aleksei Losev, and Gustav Shpet--frequently responded to the work of contemporary European philosophers even as they drew upon and revitalized powerful elements of early Russian religious thought. On Seifrid's view, this highly original body of writing about language was the essential context for the development of Russian Futurism, Formalism, and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Soviet structuralists--movements and ideas whose influence has extended far beyond Russia and long past their years of efflorescence. This book will have a lasting impact among readers who will be fascinated to discover the richness of this long-suppressed chapter in the history of Russian culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Seifrid is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California. He is the author of Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801443164
• ISBN 13: 9780801443169
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible