Alexander Kushner. Bilingual Poetry Collection

Alexander Kushner. Bilingual Poetry Collection
Author: Alexander Kushner
Publisher: Krik Publishing House
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692514054

This book is a part of bilingual series "Russian Word without Borders" and includes the poetry collection written in Russian by prominent Russian poet Alexander Kushner translated to English by Gary Light.

Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile

Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
Author: David M. Bethea
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400863740

Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the great Russian poets in the "bardic" mode, is in his relation to others, or the Other. Brodsky's master trope turns out to be "triangular vision," the tendency to mediate a prior model (Dante) with a closer model (Mandelstam) in the creation of a palimpsest-like text in which the poet is implicated as a triangulated hybrid of these earlier incarnations. In pursuing this theme, Bethea compares and contrasts Brodsky to the poet's favorite models--Donne, Auden, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva--and analyzes his fundamental differences with Nabokov, the only Russian exile of Brodsky's stature to rival him as a bilingual phenomenon. Various critical paradigms are used throughout the study as foils to Brodsky's thinking. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contemporary Russian Poetry

Contemporary Russian Poetry
Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1993
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

This book consists of the work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975. It is the first dual-language anthology in many years.

Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia
Author: Carol Ueland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793618305

The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Author: Angela Carstensen
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011-05-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083899315X

More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.

Final Matters

Final Matters
Author: Szilárd Borbély
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0691182434

"...acclaimed translator Ottilie Mulzet reveals the full range and force of Borbély's verse by bringing together generous selections from his last two books, Final Matters and To the body...Borbély weaves into his work an unlikely mix of Hungarian folk songs, Christian and Jewish hymns, classical myths, police reports, and unsettling accounts of abortions..."--back cover.

Contemporary Russian Poetry

Contemporary Russian Poetry
Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1993-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780253207692

"The book is a credit to the press, a boon to everyone interested in Russian culture, and an important resource for teachers and students of Russian literature." —Library Journal " . . . a solid and conscientious piece of work, informed by discerning taste and learning." —Times Literary Supplement "Smith's collection of contemporary Russian poetry should be useful to anyone with a serious interest in work produced during recent years both by poets living in the U.S.S.R. and by prominent Third Wave emigrés. . . . The introductory and biographical materials are excellent." —Publishers Weekly The work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975, is highlighted in this dual-language anthology. The book features an extraordinary cohort of talented poets, including Joseph Brodsky, Evgenii Rein, and Bella Akhmadulina. Notes, biographical sketches, a detailed bibliography, and an informative introduction make this an indispensable resource for teachers, students, and readers of modern Russian literature.

Grand Street

Grand Street
Author: Jean Stein
Publisher: Grand Street
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1991-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780393307436