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Silver Age Poetry
. Ed(S): Forrester, Sibelan E. S.; Kelly, Martha M. F.
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Description for Silver Age Poetry
Paperback. Editor(s): Forrester, Sibelan E. S.; Kelly, Martha M. F. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 618 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment.
After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation—many of them translated ... Read more
Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment.
After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation—many of them translated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
618
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Syllabus
Number of Pages
618
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618113528
SKU
V9781618113528
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About . Ed(S): Forrester, Sibelan E. S.; Kelly, Martha M. F.
Sibelan Forrester teaches Russian language and literature as well as a regular Translation Workshop at Swarthmore College. She has published numerous articles on Russian poetry (especially Marina Tsvetaeva), and Russian folklore. Her translation of Vladimir Propp’s book The Russian Folktale was published by Wayne State University Press in 2012. She also translates contemporary Russian poetry, most recently that of Maria ... Read more
Reviews for Silver Age Poetry
"Russian Silver Age Poetry is virtually unrivaled as a resource for presenting Russian Modernism" - Daniel Brooks, The Russian Review (Vol. 77, No. 1)