title: Ibsen, Blok and Russian revolution (on connections between the poem The Twelve and the double-drama Emperor and Galilean)
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metadata.value: Yuriev, Andrey
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metadata.value: 2023-01-31T12:22:28Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-31T12:22:28Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Yuriev A. A. Ibsen, Blok and Russian revolution (on connections between the poem The Twelve and the double-drama Emperor and Galilean). Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 2, pp. 357–371.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38932
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metadata.value: The article deals with relations between Alexandr Blok’s poem The Twelve (1918)
  and Henrik Ibsen’s “world-historical drama” Emperor and Galilean (1873). Proceeding
  from the Christian paradoxical discourse after the Norwegian playwright, the
  poet radicalizes it so much that the bounds of traditional Christian worldview are
  broken down. In the poem, one can notice a rather complex indirect connection with
  the paradoxical discourse of both Dostoevsky (whose Christian identity is difficult to
  question) and Ibsen, especially beloved by Blok, in whose system of views it is important
  to notice the Lutheran dominant, implicitly referring to some Gnostic views that
  have quite logically been actualized in European culture of the last two centuries. The
  similarity between works so different, at first glance, as The Twelve and Ibsen’s double-
  drama, deserves attention: in both cases, Christ appears ghostly, not in the flesh,
  in Blok — invisible to all the characters, in Ibsen — as visible only to very few. In both
  cases, he brings retribution — a theme equally important both in Ibsen’s work and in
  Blok’s poem. Both the Norwegian playwright and the Russian symbolist poet interpret
  world history from the standpoint of religious and metaphysical paradoxicalism.
  Ibsen’s hero who renounced Christ begins the most brutal, bloody persecution of the
  Christian Church in order to destroy Christianity (Blok’s Red Guards shooting at
  both “Holy Russia” and the invisible Christ for them create a kind of parallel for him
  in this case), but achieves the goal opposite to his intentions — he cleanses Christianity
  and thereby saves it. The same can be said about Ibsen’s Julian that was said by
  Blok about the Red Guard — this is “water” to the mill of the Christian church. We
  do not know whether Blok think of Emperor and Galilean when working at his poem,
  but the parallels are obvious and remarkable.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ibsen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Emperor and Galilean
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Blok
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Twelve
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Norwegian literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ibsen, Blok and Russian revolution (on connections between the poem The Twelve and the double-drama Emperor and Galilean)
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metadata.value: Article
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