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Zinaida Vengerova–In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador Between East and West
Title: Zinaida Vengerova--In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador Between East and WestPublished by: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenRelease Date: 2nd edition, January 2006Contributors: Rosina NeginskyISBN13: 978-3631547229Buy the Book: Barnes & NobleAmazonIn this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and she used her profound understanding of these different currents of Symbolism to fashion for herself an ambassadorial role between Western Europe…