The Aesthetics of Russian and Czech Symbolism (Selected Chapters)

The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th century.

Autorentext

Jan Vorel, Ph.D., studied Czech and Russian philology as his university branches. Later, he completed his doctoral studies at Masaryk University. He works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Ostrava. He is the author of several monographs and a wide range of studies in specialized periodicals.

Inhalt

Introduction - Julius Zeyer - "John the Babtist" of Czech Literary Symbolism (The Artistic Creation as a Search for Cultural Integrity) - From Decadent Aesthetics to Theurgic Art (Parallels in Genesis of Czech and Russian Literary Symbolism) - alda's Idea of Synthetism in Modern Art - Two Concepts of Symbolism in the Aesthetic System of Russian Symbolists - Hidden Affinities of Two Spiritual Poets - Structure of the Genre of Russian Experimental Novel (Destruction of Consciousness vs. Search for Spiritual Integrity) - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index of names