Joseph Brodsky : a poet for our time /
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| Author / Creator: | Polukhina, Valentina |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description: | xx, 324 p. : port. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in Russian literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/980915 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Acknowledgement
- Part I. A Stepson of the Empire
- 1. The generation of 1956
- 2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch
- 3. The northern exile
- 4. A change of empires
- Part II. Longing for World Culture
- 5. In defence of culture
- 6. A modern descendant of classicism
- 7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden
- Part III. The Mask of Metaphor
- 8. A web of metaphors
- 9. Similarity in disparity
- 10. Ars est celare artem
- 11. A form of identity of two versions
- Part IV. Words Devouring Things
- 12. Thing - Veshch
- 13. Man - thing - number
- 14. Man - word - spirit
- 15. An intellectual and poetic tour de force
- Part V. A Song of Disobedience
- 16. Poet versus empire
- 17. A masochistic joy
- 18. Speaking into silence
- Part VI. Image of Alienation
- 19. A stern metaphysical realist
- 20. Man against time and space
- 21. Credo quia absurdum est
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index