Poets of hope and despair : the Russian symbolists in war and revolution, 1914-1918
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Type of record: Book
Title: Poets of hope and despair : the Russian symbolists in war and revolution, 1914-1918
Classmark: Leeds Russian Archive 8276(b)
Creator(s): Hellman, Ben (1949-)
Publisher: Brill
Publication city: Leiden; Boston
Date(s): [2018]
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 367 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/652579
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002927469705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
"In Poets of Hope and Despair: The Russian Symbolists in War and Revolution (1914-1918), Ben Hellman examines the artistic responses and the philosophical and political attitudes of eight major Russian poets to the First World War and the revolutions of 1917. The historical cataclysms gave rise to apocalyptic premonitions and a thirst for a total spiritual metamorphosis. A major topic of discussion was the role of Russia in this process. Other issues raised were modern Germany, the future of a divided Poland, the occupation of Belgium, and the dilemma of the Russian Jews. In the wake of the military setbacks, hopes were mixed with feelings of fear and despair, all expressed in fictional as well as in nonfictional form"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Symbolism before the war -- The war: act I (1914-1915) -- The war: act II (1915-1917) -- The war: act III (1917-1918) -- The symbolist experience 1914-1918.
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