One Less Hope

Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-1979-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 101, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This collection of essays, which should appeal both to Slavists and students of comparative literature, deals with twelve major twentieth-century Russian poets who, for varied reasons, became estranged from the Soviet state. Some stayed in Russia to become inner émigrés, others chose to go into exile in the West. One less hope, one more song (Akhmatova’s words), stands both for their suffering and often their deaths, but also for their humanity and poetic achievement.
The poets in question are Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Nikolay Gumilev, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladislav Khodasevich, Boris Poplavsky, Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. The whole collection is followed by a cultural perspective of the Russian 19th and 20th centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ponomareff, Constantin V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Conscience in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetic Work
Marina Tsvetaeva’s Mystic Path
Vladislav Khodasevich’s Nightmare World
Boris Poplavsky: Poet of Unknown Destination
The Ebb of Joseph Brodsky’s Poetic Inspiration
The Search for the Cosmic Connection in Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Nikolay Gumilev’s The Pillar of Fire
Alexander Blok’s The Twelve
Alienation in Sergey Esenin’s Poetry
Osip Mandelshtam’s Stone and Tristia. Poet of Loneliness
Epilogue
A Cultural Perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Until his early retirement Constantin Ponomareff was a professor at the faculty of the University of Toronto from 1960-1995 in the field of Russian Language and Literature and Humanities.