In Russian literature, Konstantin Leontyev is a peculiar phenomenon. It is difficult to attribute him to a specific genre. This article considers him to be an “atypical”aestheticist. The paper starts with the two development stages of aestheticism, namely “the theory of pure art” and “aestheticism of amoralism”, to show Leontyev’s thoughts in these two aspects and point out his “atypical” points.
As a unique tragedist, Ivanov has deeply studied the art of tragedy. In his exploration of Dionysian worship, he analyzed the causes of the demise of ancient Greek tragedy and put forward the essence of tragedy. In the innovative practice of dramas such as Tatanos, Niobe and Prometheus, the author explains the punishment theme of tragedy and the use of symbolic artistic techniques. Under the art and cultural background, the concept of Sobornost’s drama was proposed. Ivanov is keen on reviving the tragic art guided by the ancient Greek tradition. His tragic creation uses his favorite Greek mythology as the carrier to integrate with modern thought, expressing his desire to overcome individualism. Ivanov hopes to save the world with art and find a way out of the cultural crisis.
As an outstanding representative of Russian cultural spirit and the last thinker in the Silver Age, A.F. Losev had constructed his huge system of phylosophy and aestetics. Being in line with their musical philosophy and aesthetics, the musical spirit of narrative works created by him during exile in the 1930s contains deep thinking about ancient Greek ideas. In the typical and representative of his works——Tchaikovsky Trio, music and eros became the main philosophical concepts and poetic categories in exploring the consciousness of life, the meaning of life and the nature of existence, and fully reflects the unique genre characteristics and aesthetic value of Loshev’s musical philosophy prose.
The Russian symbolism is a literary school born under the influence of the world’s literary and artistic experience. They have enlisted many foreign writers as mentors, and the representative of British aestheticism — Oscar Wilde, is one of them.Since its inception, the Russian Symbolists have had fierce disputes about Wilde. The symbolists’ understanding of Wilde has a strong mythological meaning. Their admiration and translation have promoted Wilde’s great reputation in Russia, and Wilde’s literary creation also influenced the symbolist writers Bryusov, Sologub and Annensky to varying degrees. While accepting Wilde’s aestheticism, they formed a dialogic relationship with it, which embodies the aesthetic exploration of symbolism.
As an Acmeist poet, Mandelshtam’s poems reflects the creative idea of “feeling nostalgic about the world culture”, and the use of color words is one means of the poet’s fulfilling the idea. In Mandelshtam’s poems, color words are frequently used and of multiple functions. This paper extracts data of color words in Mandelshtam’s poems from the national corpus of Russia, analyzes the linguistic data, and reveals the main characteristics of the color words:（1） the world in Mandelshtam’s poems is blazing with color;（2） the real world is depicted mainly with color words like white, red, black,etc.;（3） black, blue, and yellow not only reflect the poet’s subjective and emotional world but are also endowed with the symbolic meaning of world culture. Such color words reflect not only the poet’s superb technique of using color words and aesthetic pursuit of poems, but also the poet’s personal subjective emotions and understanding of world culture and fulfill the Acmeist creative idea.
