The Symbolist Contamination of Gor'kii's "Realistic" Style
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward J Brown (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-238 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2498465 |
| OpenAlex | W2317353216 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
I am concerned in this paper with investigating the complex relationship of Maksim Gor'kii with the literature of his day, including the so-called realists, but particularly with the decadents, the symbolists, and other writers generally thought of as alien to Russian realism, whether critical or socialist. The stereotype of Gor'kii still dominant in some quarters presents him as walled off from "decadent" and "bourgeois" literary styles and from the carriers of such "contamination." But Gor'kii was much more complex and more interesting than we have supposed, and he functioned during much of his career as part of a literary world in which "symbolism," rather loosely denned, was the dominant literary tendency. I would like to adduce evidence of the effect on his writing of symbolist and other modern influences and of his close relationship, at the same time, to the popular culture of the day
Aesthetics · Alien · Art · Bourgeoisie · Literature · Political science · Realism · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · Style (visual arts · Writing style · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Social Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |