The Superstitious Muse

For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the?mythopoetic thinking? that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a ti...

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Otros Autores: Bethea, David autor (autor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 20091101.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the?mythopoetic thinking? that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of?erasure? and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. The lichnost? (personhood, psychic totality) of the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different planes of being. Pushkin?s Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter?s new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781934843178
9781618116789