01903nam a2200169   4500008004100000020001800041245006300059210006000122260005400182300000800236520130200244653003501546653003501581653003601616100001901652856006201671       2003                        eng d  a978081011955000aRussian Minimalism : From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story0 aRussian Minimalism From the Prose Poem to the AntiStory  aEvanston, IllinoisbNorthwestern University Press  a2163 a<p>Challenging traditional concepts of poetry and narrative prose, the prose poem is by nature a "subversive" form-and as such has drawn extensive interest in literature and criticism during the past two decades. Russian Minimalism is the first book to apply the theoretical debate on the nature of the prose poem to the history of Russian literature. In it Adrian Wanner uses the notion of minimalism, borrowed from the realm of American visual arts, as a critical tool for a historical investigation of the genesis and development of the Russian prose miniature, going back to the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The paradoxical genre of the prose poem, developed by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, provides Wanner with an overarching theoretical rubric for a variety of works of Russian literature, ranging from Ivan Turgenev's "Poems in Prose" to a host of decadent, symbolist, realist, and futurist miniatures, including Fedor Sologub's "Little Fairy Tales," Aleksei Remizov's dreams, Vasilii Kandinskii's prose poems, and Daniil Kharms' absurdist ministories. His book demonstrates how the negativity inherent in the form of the prose poem transformed the overwrought lyricism of fin de siècle prose into the ascetic starkness of the twentieth-century minimalist anti-story.</p>10aLiterary Criticism – General10aLiterary Criticism – Russian10aPoetry – European – General1 aWanner, Adrian  uhttps://naum.slav.uni-sofia.bg/en/librislavici/wanner2003