Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony

by Monika Greenleaf

Overview

Pushkin and Romantic Fashion is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Alexsandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. It focuses on Pushkin's use of the Romantic fragment, especially the link between the fragment and Romantic irony's fundamental and modern questioning of the sources and intentionality of language. In the view of such irony's most eloquent formulator, Friedrich Schlegel, "identity" does not precede speech, but is forged in each improvisational interaction with interlocutor or reader. One finds out who one is by speaking, and all utterances and texts stand in a fragmentary, contingent relation to an accumulating life-text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804727990
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Iron
Edition description:	1
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

"Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's."

Choice

"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution."

Harvard University - William Mills Todd III

"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution."—William Mills Todd III, Harvard University


"Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's."—Choice

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