TY - BOOK ID - 77894881 TI - Russian modernism PY - 1997 SN - 0511585551 0511005504 9780511005503 9780511585555 0521580099 9780521580090 9780521024495 0521024498 PB - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Russian fiction KW - Manners and customs in literature. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - History and criticism. KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Manners and customs in literature KW - Russia KW - Soviet Union KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894881 AB - This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as neutral and normative, the other encapsulated in the Orthodox emphasis on iconic embodiment. Hutchings identifies early 'Decadent' formulations of byt as a milestone after which writers from Chekhov to Rozanov sought to affirm the iconic potential hidden in Russian realism's critique of representationalism. Provocative, yet careful, textual analyses reveal a consistent urge to redefine art's function as one not of representing life, but of transfiguring the everyday. ER -