Lyric poetry and modern politics : Russia, Poland, and the West /

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonstrates how the practice of the personal lyric...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cavanagh, Clare
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Russian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Polish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > History > 20th century.
Politics in literature.
Poésie lyrique > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Lyric poetry.
Polish poetry.
Politics and literature.
Russian poetry.
Russisch.
Pools.
Gedichten.
Politieke aspecten.
poésie russe > 20e s. > études diverses.
poésie polonaise > 20e s. > études diverses.
poésie > politique > Pologne > Russie > 20e s. > études diverses.
Rysk poesi > historia > 1900-talet.
Polsk poesi > historia > 1900-talet.
Litteratur och politik > historia > 1900-talet.
Politik i litteraturen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: acknowledged legislation
  • Courting disaster: Blok and Yeats
  • Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the body politic
  • The death of the book à la russe: the Acmeists under Stalin
  • Akhmatova and the forms of responsibility: the Poem without a Hero
  • Avant-guarde again, or the posthumous Polish adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • Bringing up the rear: the histories of Wisława Szymborska
  • Counterrevolution in poetic language: Poland's Generation of '68
  • The unacknowledged legislator's dream: Czesław Miłosz and Anglo-American poetry
  • Afterword: martyrs, survivors, and success stories, or the postcommunist prophet.

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