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Discover the hidden machinery behind Russian literary modernism with Jonathan Stone’s Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism. This scholarly work unpacks how Symbolism became the first and central movement of Russian modernism, revolutionizing literature and art at the turn of the 20th century. Stone, a literature historian teaching at Franklin & Marshall College and author of works on Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, and Mikhail Bakhtin, explores a striking paradox: how did Symbolist poetry emerge and triumph in an era dominated by realist prose focused on reproducing life’s truth? The book zeroes in on key questions: Why did Valery Bryusov and his projects lead this shift? How was a new type of reader cultivated? And what role did book covers play in building the Symbolist “brand”? By examining seemingly peripheral figures and phenomena—such as the poetry of Z. Fuchs, one of Bryusov’s literary masks—Stone draws parallels with Western European modernism and details the complex institutionalization of Russian Symbolism. Priced at 1474.00 RUR, this is an essential read for anyone fascinated by the cultural and literary dynamics that shaped a pivotal era in Russian history.
