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Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781618113528 |
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Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
Publication date: | 05/20/2015 |
Series: | Cultural Syllabus |
Pages: | 618 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.31(d) |
About the Author
Martha Kelly is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic, forthcoming from Northwestern UniversityPress (Fall 2015). She also works on the genre of publitsistika—which overlaps with literary journalism—in the immediately pre- and post-Soviet periods. In connection with this project, she is translating the essays of contemporary poet and scholar Ol’ga Sedakova. She has published articles on Russian modernist poetry, on Chekhov, and on Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago.
What People are Saying About This
“This is an unprecedented tool for educators to present the Russian Silver Age to students in all its astonishing richness and complexity. In addition to the generous, inventive, and subtle selection of poetry, the reader is introduced to the institutions and critical conversations that nourished that overwhelming creative flow that up to this day continues to nourish and challenge Russian literary thought. Reading this page-turner, one feels like an invisible belated guest in a literary salon of Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century where Anna Akhmatova reads, Mikhail Kuzmin smirks and hums, and Viacheslav Ivanov nails his critical verdict, while we follow their word-play and intellectual gesticulation in awe."
“The Russian Silver Age was a time of experimentation and achievement unparalleled in Russian culture. This anthology offers Anglophone readers a unique opportunity to acquaint themselves with the leading poets and movements of that time. In addition to a generous sampling of the verse of the Symbolists, Acmeists, and Futurists, the editors have included essential prose pieces dating from the same period, ranging from contemporary reviews to critical essays to manifestoes. All poets are introduced through concise and accurate biographies, and each selection of poetry concludes by listing bibliographies and scholarship for those who would like to delve deeper. The volume will be indispensable for students as well as general readers with an interest in Russian culture.”
“The Russian Silver Age was a time of experimentation and achievement unparalleled in Russian culture. This anthology offers Anglophone readers a unique opportunity to acquaint themselves with the leading poets and movements of that time. In addition to a generous sampling of the verse of the Symbolists, Acmeists, and Futurists, the editors have included essential prose pieces dating from the same period, ranging from contemporary reviews to critical essays to manifestoes. All poets are introduced through concise and accurate biographies, and each selection of poetry concludes by listing bibliographies and scholarship for those who would like to delve deeper. The volume will be indispensable for students as well as general readers with an interest in Russian culture.”
“This is an unprecedented tool for educators to present the Russian Silver Age to students in all its astonishing richness and complexity. In addition to the generous, inventive, and subtle selection of poetry, the reader is introduced to the institutions and critical conversations that nourished that overwhelming creative flow that up to this day continues to nourish and challenge Russian literary thought. Reading this page-turner, one feels like an invisible belated guest in a literary salon of Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century where Anna Akhmatova reads, Mikhail Kuzmin smirks and hums, and Viacheslav Ivanov nails his critical verdict, while we follow their word-play and intellectual gesticulation in awe."
“It being dauntingly impossible to do justice in translation to that great world treasure that is the Poetry of the Russian Silver Age, editors and translators Forrester and Kelly have given us something more selections of best existing translations are here amended by new ones and framed within their wider cultural context the contribution that poets have always made to their culture and age as critics, essayist, and yes, historians. A valuable personal discovery for myself was Mayakovsky’s touching tribute on the death of Velimir Khlebnikov (1922). This much needed book promises to become indispensable to students and experts alike."