ISBN:
1618110128
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1618116789
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1934843172
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9781618110121
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9781618116789
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9781934843178
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (430 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bethea, David M., 1948- Superstitious muse
Keywords:
Russian literature History and criticism
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Mythology in literature
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Superstition in literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Russian & Former Soviet Union
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Russian & Former Soviet Union
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Mythology in literature
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Russian literature
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Superstition in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of "erasure" and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. The lichnost' (personhood, psychic totality) of the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different planes of being. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence
Abstract:
Russian literature : background, foreground, creative cognition -- Pushkin the poet, Pushkin the thinker --Reading Russian writers reading themselves and others.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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