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- Title
'Bergsonian Poetics' and the Beast: Jane Harrison's Translations from the Russian.
- Authors
Smith, Marilyn Schwinn
- Abstract
This paper traces Jane Harrison's study of Russian language, literature and culture to the shift in her understanding of primitive religion, from her adumbration of the theories Henri Bergson and Emile Durkheim in Themis (1912) to the translation of Aleksei Remizov's Russian animal tales in The Book of the Bear (1926). Formulated during the Great War, Harrison's theory regarding consciousness, language, and totemism postulated Russia as an antidote to the excesses of rationalism (often associated, in her writings, with Germany).
- Subjects
HARRISON, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928; LITERATURE translations; REMIZOV, Aleksei, 1877-1957; BOOK of the Bear, The (Book); RUSSIAN literature -- Foreign countries; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; RATIONALISM; TOTEMISM
- Publication
Translation & Literature, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 3, p314
- ISSN
0968-1361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/tal.2011.0034