Preface........................................................................ix Acknowledgments................................................................xiii Introduction: From Biography to Text...........................................3 PART 1 Prospero and Ariel: Categories of Discourse.............................45 1 Lyric, Ritual, Symbol........................................................47 2 Epic, Myth, Allegory.........................................................87 3 Ivanov's Theory of Discourse.................................................122 PART 2 Hermeneutic Themes in Ivanov's Theoretical Universe.....................151 4 Catharsis....................................................................153 5 Mathesis.....................................................................175 6 Praxis.......................................................................199 PART 3 Afterglow...............................................................227 7 Ivanov's Emigration. ... read full excerpt from The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov ebook