Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and c...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1992.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Landmarks of world literature. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42016617*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The poetry of Eugene Onegin. The Russian language. Problems of translation. The Onegin stanza. A close look at two stanzas
- 2. Shades of unreality. The story. The presence of Pushkin. Inherited perceptions of Eugene Onegin. Morning into midnight
- 3. The unreal reputations of Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina. Eugene Onegin. Guilty or not guilty? Imaginary superiority. The Byronic background. In and out of character. Tatyana Larina. The two Tatyanas and two Eugenes. The two rejection scenes. The earlier Tatyana
- 4. Olga, Lensky and the duel. The younger sister. Vladimir Lensky. The duel. Why did he do it?
- 5. It is in verse, but is it a novel? 'The careless fruit of my amusements'. An educated pen. In search of the serious content. Privacy of conscience and moral awareness. History and fate. The possibility and closeness of happiness. Dealing with death. Knowledge of human nature. Eugene Onegin as a landmark.
