Andrey Bely's "Petersburg" : : A Centennial Celebration / / ed. by Olga M. Cooke.

• MitwirkendeR: Anschuetz, Carol,; Beyer, Thomas R.,; Carlson, Maria,; Castellano, Charlene,; Cooke, Olga M.,; Emery, Jacob,; Keys, Roger,; Langen, Timothy,; Lavrov, Aleksandr V.,; Ljunggren, Magnus,; Nabokov, Vladimir,; Ponomareva, Anna,; Steinberg, Ada,; Weiner, Adam,; Wermuth-Atkinson, Judith,
• TeilnehmendeR: Beyer, Thomas R.
• HerausgeberIn: Cooke, Olga M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Real Twentieth Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; On Petersburg --; Introduction --; Bely's Petersburg and the End of the Russian Novel --; Andrey Bely's Astral Novel: A Theosophical Reading of Petersburg --; Synesthesia as Apocalypse in Andrey Bely's Petersburg --; Kinship and Figure in Andrey Bely's Petersburg --; Metafiction in Andrey Bely's Novel Petersburg --; Petersburg as a Historical Novel --; Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton --; The Bomb, the Baby, the Book --; "Know Thyself": From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to the Pages of Petersburg --; Fragmentary "Prototypes" in Andrey Bely's Novel Petersburg --; The Enchanted Point of Petersburg --; Reality and Appearance in Petersburg and the Viennese Secession --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618115768
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618115768
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Olga M. Cooke.

Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely's Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely's polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century's four greatest masterpieces, Petersburg is the first novel in which the city is the hero. Frequently compared to Joyce's Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.