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Russian Silver Age Poetry
. Ed(S): Forrester, Sibelan E. S.; Kelly, Martha M. F.
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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 32. Weight in Grams: 853.
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
9781618113702
SKU
V9781618113702
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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 Russian Silver Age Poetry
The early twentieth century was a time of apocalyptic fears, revolutionary stirrings, and excellent poetry. The window this volume opens to the Silver Age captures all that and much more. Billed as a coursebook, RSAP will have undoubted value in classrooms exploring pre-Soviet cultural movements and fin-de-siècle poetry. Yet through its diverse poems, essays, and the editors’ explanatory notes, it ... Read more