TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Joan Delaney
ED  - National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
TI  - Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism 
T2  - Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
SN  - 9781618117014
AV  - PG3467.O6 Z67 2010
U1  - 891.71/3 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Poets, Russian
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Symbolism (Literary movement)
KW  - Russia
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Key to frequently used abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Drive for Life --; Chapter 2. Chronicle of My Travels --; Chapter 3. A Love Affair with the World's Waters --; Chapter 4. Two Meetings --; Chapter 5. "Dreams and Meditations" --; Chapter 6. The Power of the Word --; Chapter 7. "Abolishing Death" (1) --; Chapter 8. Finland, Novgorod, St. Petersburg --; Chapter 9. Abolishing Death (2) --; Afterword
N2  - Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi -- poet, thinker, mystic- - for many decades the "lost genius" of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into the currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s. A passionate searcher for immortality, he developed his own version of pantheism meant to guard his unique persona from dissolution in the All-One. The poetry of Tiutchev, Vladimir Solov'ev Soloviev and Rossetti, William James's psychology, paintings of Pre-Raphaelites and Arnold Boecklin, Old Russian historical myth, the Finnish Kalevala: all engaged him during his brief life. His worldview grew more audacious, his confidence in the magical power of the word grew more assured. Drowning in 1901 at 23, Konevskoi left a legacy unfinished, rich, and intriguing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618117014?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -