Gustav Shpet: Literature and Aesthetics from the “Silver Age” to the 1930s

Authors

  • Galin Tihanov

Keywords:

Russian literature, literary theory, literary aesthetics, Shpet, Gustav, Symbolism, imagism, Moskow linguistic circle

Abstract

The paper reviews Gustav Shpet’s immersion in Russian Symbolism, his contacts with the Imagists, his contribution to the work of the Moscow Linguistic Circle and the study of literature at GAKhN. In the final section an analysis of Shpet’s career as a translator is offered.

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