The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry
Author | : Michael Wachtel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2004-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521004930 |
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Author | : Michael Wachtel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2004-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521004930 |
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Author | : Caryl Emerson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139471686 |
Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.
Author | : Peter Howarth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139502328 |
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
Author | : Michael Wachtel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521620789 |
The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, showing how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and, at times, specific themes. Michael Wachtel's basic thesis is that form is never neutral: poets can react positively in terms of stylization and development, or negatively in terms of parody or revision, to the work of their predecessors, but they cannot ignore it. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of quotations, Wachtel offers close readings of individual poems of more than fifty poets. He aims to help English-speaking readers reconstruct the strong sense of continuity that Russian poets have always felt, transcending any individual age or ideology. Ultimately, his 1999 book is an inquiry into the nature of literary tradition itself, and how it coalesces in a country that has always taken so much of its identity from its written legacy.
Author | : Andrew Kahn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2006-12-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827413 |
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at his enduring legacy in music and film from his own day to the present. Special attention is given to the reinvention of Pushkin as a cultural icon during the Soviet period. No other volume available brings together such a range of material and such comprehensive coverage of all Pushkin's major and minor writings. The contributions represent state-of-the-art scholarship that is innovative and accessible, and are complemented by a chronology and a guide to further reading.
Author | : Nicholas Rzhevsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107002524 |
A fully updated new edition of this overview of contemporary Russia and the influence of its Soviet past.
Author | : Christopher Beach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521891493 |
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Author | : Brian Nelson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521887089 |
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author | : Evgeny Dobrenko |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828231 |
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.
Author | : Brian Boyd |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780151012640 |
Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously. Here, collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov always wished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With an introduction by Brian Boyd, author of "Vladimir Nabokov, "a prize-winning two-volume biography," ""Verses and Versions" is a momentous and authoritative contribution to Nabokov's literary legacy.