This work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also…

The book discusses Russia’s contacts with the West from the eighteenth century to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles offer new perspectives on the study…

This study attempts to account for the failed endings of O'Neill’s earlier plays and the highly successful closures of his later plays by examining his endings with regard to contemporary…