A History of Russian Symbolism

Avril Pyman

earliest edition we have, 1994 Cambridge University Press, 2011

This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the two generations of writers whose work served as the seedbed of Existentialism in thought and of Modernism in prose and the performing arts, and reassesses their achiev...

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History of Russian Symbolism edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511867293
History of Russian Symbolism edition · 2010 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511519611
A History of Russian Symbolism paperback · 2006 · Cambridge University Press · 481 pages · 9780521024303
A history of Russian symbolism edition · 1994 · Cambridge University Press · 481 pages

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