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Abstract
While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching these cultural influences were for both countries, affecting many spheres of intellectual and daily life such as philosophy and religion, education and ideology, sciences and their application, arts and letters, custom and language. The German-Russian relationship has always been particularly intense. Oscillating as it has between infatuation and contempt, it has always been marked by a singular paradox: a German cultural presence in Russia resulting either in a more or less complete fusion, as in the case of Russifield German, or in a pronounced mutual repulsion, accompanied by the denigration of each other's culture as inferior. It is this curious paradox that determines the perspectives of the articles that were specially written for this volume, providing it with a unifying focus.
Gennady Barabtarlo is Professor of Russian at the University of Missouri. An American citizen born in Moscow, he has authored, edited, and translated several books and published a large number of articles on Russian and American literature.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cold Fusion | iii | ||
Copyright Page | iv | ||
Contents | vii | ||
Acknowledgements | ix | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Chapter 1. A Swedish Countess and a Russian Empress | 19 | ||
Chapter 2. From King-as-Poet to Poet-as-King | 34 | ||
Chapter 3. Dreams of a German(n) in Russia | 50 | ||
Chapter 4. The Fantastic in the Everyday | 62 | ||
Chapter 5. The Tyranny of Difference | 74 | ||
Chapter 6. The Tyrannical \"Knout\" of World History | 102 | ||
Chapter 7. Pushkin as \"Universal\" Poet | 113 | ||
Chapter 8. Church and State | 126 | ||
Chapter 9. The Shape of Russian Idealism | 137 | ||
Chapter 10. Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Historical Representation of the Holocaust | 153 | ||
Chapter 11. Mitteleuropa to Moscow | 169 | ||
Chapter 12. Science, Philosophy Music | 185 | ||
Chapter 13. Nietzsche's Hidden Voice in Socialist Realism | 197 | ||
Chapter 14. Transnational Authorship on the German-Slavic Border | 212 | ||
Chapter 15. \"The Stepmother of Russian Cities | 225 | ||
Chapter 16. Nabokov and Goethe | 241 | ||
Chapter 17. Pasternak and the Russian Reception of Heine | 252 | ||
Chapter 18. Kafka's \"The Hunger Artist\" and Shalamov's \"the Artist of the Spade | 277 | ||
Appendix. \"The Artist of the Spade | 292 | ||
Contributors | 304 |