HUNTER OF THEMES by Karen Link Rosenflanz ( 9780820461519 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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HUNTER OF THEMES
THE INTERPLAY OF WORD AND THING IN THE WORKS OF SIGIZMUND KRZIZANOVSKIJ

By:

Karen Link Rosenflanz

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ISBN 10:

0820461512

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9780820461519

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Publisher:

PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

6 June, 2005

Series:

Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature 67

Pages:

171

Synopsis:

The phantasmagoric short stories and satirical novellas of the Russian modernist Sigizmund Križ iž anovskij (1887-1950) are a unique amalgam of verbal pyrotechnics, scientific erudition, and philosophical contemplation. This book examines how the raw materials of Russian byt are transformed through Križ iž anovskij's ironic wit and rich imagination. Affinities with the theories of his Russian Formalist and Futurist contemporaries are revealed in Križ iž anovskij's use of literary devices to generate the themes of his experimental prose. It demonstrates how paranomasia and other types of pun create rich sound texture, promote semantic associations, or provide structure in his stories, and how his works refract the semiotic debates over the resurrection of the word as thing. Hunter of Themes highlights Križ iž anovskij's literary virtuosity, which places him among the elite in the pantheon of twentieth-century Russian authors.

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