Ilya Vinitsky 
Ghostly Paradoxes [EPUB ebook] 
Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism

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The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of ’the Wanderers, ‘ and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit communication, and materialization of the ‘spirits.’ Ghostly Paradoxes examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two disparate movements influenced each other.Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period’s aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia’s major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 272 ● ISBN 9781487531515 ● Uitgeverij University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Gepubliceerd 2018 ● Downloadbare 3 keer ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6738301 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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