By: Hutchings, Stephen C.
Price: $20.00
Publisher:
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2289554
ISBN: 0521580099
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Brenda, to whom this book owes so much! Best wishes, Steve Hutchings'). Jacket lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 316 pp. This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life, or byt, and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two aesthetic systems, one predominant in Western Catholic and Protestant cultures, the other reflected in Orthodox...
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