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Optical play

Chadaga, Julia Bekman,

Optical play glass, vision, and spectacle in Russian culture / [electronic resource] : Julia Bekman Chadaga. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Looking through glass : the transformation of vision -- The language of glass : making rhetorical objects -- The display of power : spectacular glass in Imperial Russia -- Glass architecture : glimpses of utopia -- The glass house as dream and nightmare -- Light in captivity : the glass object as ideological spectacle -- Conclusion.

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Glass construction--Social aspects--Russia.
Vision--Social aspects--Russia.
Glass--Social aspects--Russia.
Vision in literature.
Glass in literature.
Russian literature--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

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