Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry

  

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry. By Masha Rubins, Maria Rubins. Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group of poets led by Théophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the 20th century. The Acmeists shared with the Parnassians a classical sensibility, an aspiration to state-of-the-art verbal craftsmanship, and a keen interest in the three-dimensional, physical world. Their love of plastic beauty as embodied in painting, sculpture, and architecture found natural release in verse about works of art.

The book shows how Acmeist texts document aspects of Russian Modernist culture while continuing the Parnassian tradition of poetry inspired by visual art. Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group of poets led by Theophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the 20th century. Maria Rubins lives in New York City and works as a literary critic for Kirkus Reviews.

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• ISBN-13: 9780312229511
• ISBN: 9780312229511
• EAN: 9780312229511
• Book Title: Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures : Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry
• Item Length: 1.1in
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Year: 2000
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Item Height: 8.7in
• Author: Maria Rubins
• Genre: Art, Science
• Topic: General
• Item Width: 6.7in
• Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
• Number of Pages: IX, 302 Pages