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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" : the poetics of Boris Slutsky /

Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg's book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grinberg, Marat, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Colección:Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe
  • Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation
  • The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion
  • pt. 1. Historiography
  • The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars"
  • The poet-historian: transplantation added
  • A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53
  • Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse
  • The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics
  • pt. 2. Polemics
  • Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies
  • On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls
  • Conversing about god: between the old and the new
  • pt. 3. Intertexts
  • Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff
  • Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov
  • "leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii
  • "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii
  • the final myth: Pushkin
  • conclusion: the reader in perpetuity.