Selected EssaysWinner of 2002 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English A poet, critic, and theoretician during the Silver Age of Russian poetry, at the turn of the Twentieth century, Viacheslav Ivanov was dubbed "Viacheslav the Magnificent" by his contemporaries for his erudition, sumptuous and allusive poetry, and brilliant essays. He provided Russian Symbolism with theoretical underpinnings based on classical and biblical mythology, the aesthetics of music, philosophy ranging from Plato and Kant to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and a profound knowledge of classical and modern European poetry. In choosing material for this volume of essays, Robert Bird and Michael Wachtel have covered a broad range of Ivanov's interests: the aesthetics of Symbolism, theater, culturological concerns, and on such influential figures of the period as Nietzsche, Solovyov, Tolstoy, and Scriabin. Also included are extensive notes on the essays in which classical, biblical, and poetic citations and allusions are identified, the aesthetic and theoretical contexts are clarified, and certain translation problems are briefly discussed. This volume provides valuable insight into the theory of Symbolism as it developed in Russia. |
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Contents
The Symbolics of Aesthetic Principles | 5 |
Two Elements in Contemporary Symbolism | 13 |
The Testaments of Symbolism | 36 |
Thoughts on Symbolism | 50 |
Manner Persona Style | 59 |
On the Limits of | 69 |
The Games of Melpomene | 89 |
The New Organic | 95 |
On Leon Baksts Painting Terror Antiquus | 144 |
Toward a Morphology | 163 |
Nietzsche and Dionysus | 177 |
The Religious Task of Vladimir Solovyov | 189 |
Lev Tolstoy and Culture | 200 |
Scriabins View of Art | 211 |
Notes | 229 |
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achieve Aeschylus Aesthetic Principles affirmed Aleksandr Blok Ancient Terror artist ascent beauty become Birth of Tragedy Brothers Karamazov called canon choral chorus Christian concept consciousness Contemporary Symbolism creation creative culture datum descent Dionysian Dionysus divine Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dostoevsky drama dream earth earthly element energy epoch essay essence eternal faith fate Faust genius Goethe harmony Hellenic holy human hypostases idea ideal idealistic incarnation individual inner insofar Ivanov Lev Tolstoy living lyric means modern mystery mystical myth mythopoesis nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's path personality philosophical Plato poem poet poetic poetry prophetic Pushkin's Realistic Symbolism reality realm religion religious revealed Russian Russian Symbolism sacrifice Scriabin self-determination sense significant Slavophilism sobornost Socrates sphere spirit style symbolic art Symbolics of Aesthetic Symbolist task Testaments of Symbolism theater theurgic things tion Tiutchev's Tolstoy Tolstoy's tragedy tragic translation true truth turn universal vision Vladimir Solovyov volume word World Soul worldview