This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to the sacred.

Autorentext

Jens Herlth is Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Christian Zehnder is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Inhalt

Contents: Jens Herlth/Christian Zehnder: On Russian Conversions Tomá Glanc: Slavic Conversions Alexey Vdovin: Between Schlegel and Baader: Stepan Shevyrev s Conversionto Orthodox Literary Science in the European Cultural Context Jens Herlth: «An upheaval was so necessary»: Authorial Conversion and the Literary Public in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) Anatoly Korchinsky/Oxana Zamolodsky: The Terrorist «Tigrych» versus the Monarchist Lev Tikhomirov: Why did Tikhomirov «Stop Being a Revolutionary»? Irina Sirotkina: Conversion to Dionysianism: Tadeusz Zieli ski and Heptachor Regula M. Zwahlen: Sergei Bulgakov: The Potentiality of Conversion Oleg Kling: Valerii Briusov s Shift from Symbolism to Proletarian Culture Bela Tsipuria: Cultural Conversion: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (Boris Pasternak and Titsian Tabidze) Christian Zehnder: Conversion as Attitude in Pasternak Josephine von Zitzewitz: Leonid Borodin s Rasstavanie: Orthodoxy and the Moscow Intelligentsia in the 1970s Milutin Janji : The Place of the Religious-Philosophical Seminar # 37 in the Witnessing of the Orthodox Christian Conception of «Anthropos» in Soviet Society Miriam Finkelstein: Our House Russia? Conversions from and to Judaism in Oleg Iur ev s Novel Poluostrov Zhidiatin Ekaterina Orlova: «To Be Means to Communicate » Tat iana Bek s Poetry: A Dialogue Between the Poet and God.