Russian Symbolism & Literary Trad: Goethe, Novalis, and the Poetics of Vyacheslav Ivanov

by Michael Wachtel

Russian Symbolism, a movement at once literary and philosophical, flourished at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unlike other contemporaneous movements that renounced the influence and traditions of the past, the Symbolists sought to integrate themselves with their predecessors, and achieve in both life and art a fundamental unity. By linking poetry, religious thought, music, and the visual arts, and by discovering, reading, and disseminating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029914450X
• ISBN13: 9780299144500
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"