Montaging Pushkin

Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-2012-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 361 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin’s legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways Russian poets have looked at themselves and at poetic language; that novelisation of poetry is detectable in the major works of poetry that engaged in a creative dialogue with Pushkin, and that polyphonic lyric has been achieved. Alexandra Smith locates significant examples of Pushkin’s cinematographic cognition of reality, suggesting that such dynamic descriptions of Petersburg helped create a highly original animated image of the city as comic apocalypse, which followers of Pushkin appropriated very successfully even as far as the late twentieth century. Montaging Pushkin will be of interest to all students of Russian poetry, as well as specialists in literary theory, European studies and the history of ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. From Pushkin’s poetics of exile to the concept of writing as
2. Pushkin’s Petersburg as comic apocalypse
3. 20th-century Pushkinian poetic responses to modernity & urban spectatorship
4. Modernity as writing: Pushkin readers & the Pushkin Myth
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Additional Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Alexandra Smith graduated from St Petersburg’s Herzen Pedagogical University and was awarded her PhD at the University of London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She has taught at the University of Essex and at the University of Bristol, and currently is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Canterbury. She authored the book The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva (Peter Lang, 1994) and has published over 130 articles in Europe, Russia, USA and Australasia on Pushkin, Russian modernism and postmodernism, and Soviet and European literature. Her recent publications include nine essays on Russian émigré authors (in: Rubins, Maria, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Russian Émigré Writers, A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Thomson-Gale, 2005).