The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner
This article examines two particular elements that inform the symbolic structure of Pervoe svidanie and investigates how they combine to further Belyi's thematic aims. The first of these is the Wagnerian concept of leitmotiv; the second is a view of spiritual education derived substantially fro...
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| description | This article examines two particular elements that inform the symbolic structure of Pervoe svidanie and investigates how they combine to further Belyi's thematic aims. The first of these is the Wagnerian concept of leitmotiv; the second is a view of spiritual education derived substantially from theosophical and anthroposophical thought and particularly from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. The two intersect in the colour imagery that Belyi employs in his poem, which becomes not only a major source of its emotional and structural unity, but also a vehicle for the integration of the poem's realist and symbolic impulses. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-89062017-01-30T11:09:22Z The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner Wells, David This article examines two particular elements that inform the symbolic structure of Pervoe svidanie and investigates how they combine to further Belyi's thematic aims. The first of these is the Wagnerian concept of leitmotiv; the second is a view of spiritual education derived substantially from theosophical and anthroposophical thought and particularly from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. The two intersect in the colour imagery that Belyi employs in his poem, which becomes not only a major source of its emotional and structural unity, but also a vehicle for the integration of the poem's realist and symbolic impulses. 2003 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8906 W. Maney/UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wells, David The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title | The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title_full | The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title_fullStr | The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title_short | The Symbolic Structure of Andrei Bely's Pervoe svidanie: Echoes of Wagner and Steiner |
| title_sort | symbolic structure of andrei bely's pervoe svidanie: echoes of wagner and steiner |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8906 |