The Red Jester
Author | : Judith Wermuth |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783643901545 |
ISBN-13 | : 3643901542 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Red Jester written by Judith Wermuth and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was Andrei Bely's aim in his ambiguous novel Petersburg? For the first time, this study firmly places Bely's work at the heart of the European Modern (die Moderne). The book argues that the novel - with its concern for the spiritual and its desire to create new aesthetics - helped reshape fundamental views of reality, of the Self, and of consciousness. Theories of Freud and Jung, as well as the aesthetics of the Viennese Secession, are used to elucidate Bely's approach to the narrative. The book also presents Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy as the prism through which Bely reflects modernist ideas. (Series: Slavistik - Vol. 1)