Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Osip Mandelshtam
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140184747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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James Greene's acclaimed translations of the poetry of Osip Mandelshtam, now in an extensively revised and augmented edition.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Osip Mandelshtam
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140184747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
James Greene's acclaimed translations of the poetry of Osip Mandelshtam, now in an extensively revised and augmented edition.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Osip Mandelʹshtam
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Mandelstam's Worlds

Mandelstam's Worlds PDF Author: Andrew Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192599836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.

Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory

Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory PDF Author: Mikhail Gronas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136905650
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories of past reading experiences shape the ways in which we react to literary works. The book also examines the concrete mnemonic qualities of poetry, as well as the social uses to which poetry memorization has historically been put to use. This study will appeal to scholars of cognitive poetics, Russian literature, and cultural studies.

Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose

Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose PDF Author: Osip Mandelstam
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230988
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Russia’s foremost modernist master in a major new translation Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into “a poetry of high velocity and exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a bardlike but a birdlike song … something like a goldfinch tremolo.” Peter France—who has been brilliantly translating Mandelstam’s work for decades—draws heavily from Mandelstam’s later poetry written in Voronezh, while also including poems across the whole arc of the poet’s tragically short life, from his early, symbolist work to the haunting elegies of old Petersburg to his defiant “Stalin poem.” A selection of Mandelstam’s prose irradiates the poetry with warmth and insight as he thinks back on his Petersburg childhood and contemplates his Jewish heritage, the sunlit qualities of Hellenism, Dante’s Tuscany, and the centrality of poetry in society.

Handbook of Russian Literature

Handbook of Russian Literature PDF Author: Victor Terras
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300048681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays

Centuries Encircle Me with Fire

Centuries Encircle Me with Fire PDF Author: Osip Mandelstam
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 164469719X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so deeply immersed in the Russian sources and language through the ear of a Russian-born Probstein who has spent most of his adult life in the US, that they provide reader's with a Mandelstam unseen any translations that precede it.

Literature and Politics Today

Literature and Politics Today PDF Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 161069936X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history. Literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns. This encyclopedia explores the complex relationship between literature and politics through detailed entries written by expert contributors on authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements, covering specific themes, concepts, and genres related to literature and politics from the 20th century to the present. The work covers cover authors that include Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Philip K. Dick, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, and Virginia Woolf, just to mention a few. International in scope, Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama covers writing ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, with special emphasis on works written in English. The content of the some 150 alphabetically arranged entries is ideal for high school students working on assignments involving literature to explore such current yet historically ongoing social issues as censorship and propaganda. This book is appropriate for public libraries where it will serve to support student research and to help general readers learn more about enduring political concerns through literary works. Academic libraries will find this reference a valuable guide for undergraduates studying literature, history, political science, law, and other disciplines.

The Later Poetry of Osip Mandelstam

The Later Poetry of Osip Mandelstam PDF Author: Peter Zeeman
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051830286
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Voronezh Notebooks

Voronezh Notebooks PDF Author: Osip Mandelstam
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179102
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and Voronezh Notebooks, a sequence of poems composed between 1935 and 1937 when he was living in internal exile in the Soviet city of Voronezh, is his last and most exploratory work. Meditating on death and survival, on power and poetry, on marriage, madness, friendship, and memory, challenging Stalin between lines that are full of the sights and sounds of the steppes, blue sky and black earth, the roads, winter breath, spring with its birds and flowers and bees, the notebooks are a continual improvisation and an unapologetic affirmation of poetry as life.