1st Edition

Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980 Music for a Deaf Age

By Josephine von Zitzewitz Copyright 2016
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called ‘37’. The group and its journal offered a platform to poets who subsequently entered the canon of Russian verse, such as Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010).... Read more

1 The Religious-Philosophical Seminar (Религиозно-философский семинар), Leningrad, 1974–1980  2 Viktor Krivulin: The Quest for a New Sacred Language  3 Aleksandr Mironov: Christianity of the Absurd  4 Elena Shvarts: Incarnation Inverted  5 Oleg Okhapkin: Poetry as Liturgy  6 Sergei Stratanovskii: Christianity and Historiography

 

Biography

Josephine von Zitzewitz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge.