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Article: Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts. Edited by Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 315. [pound]40 .00.
This collection of essays represents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary study of Russian literature of the modernist period. As Kelly and Lovell point out in the introduction, the modernist period lends itself particularly to such an investigation, as modernism is, first and foremost, concerned with the interaction and ultimately the synthesis of art forms. The first part of the volume deals with ways in which literature reflects visual and performance arts, while the essays in the ...