The superstitious muse thinking Russian literature mythopoetically
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 biogra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press
2009.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421015606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration
- Preface / Bethea, David M.
- I. Part One: Russian Literature: Background, Foreground, Creative Cognition
- 1. The Mythopoetic "Vectors" of Russian Literature
- 2. Mythopoesis Writ Large: The Apocalyptic Plot in Russian Literature
- 3. Mythopoesis and Biography: Pushkin, Jakobson, and the Secret Life of Statues
- 4. The Evolution of Evolution: Genes, Memes, Intelligent Design, and Nabokov
- 5. Relativity and Reality: Dante, Florensky, Lotman, and Metaphorical Time-Travel
- 6. Whose Mind is This Anyway? Influence, Intertextuality, and the Legitimate Boundaries of Scholarship
- II. Part Two: Pushkin the Poet, Pushkin the Thinker
- 7. Of Pushkin and Pushkinists
- 8. Biography (with Sergei Davydov)
- 9. Pushkin's Mythopoetic Consciousness: Apuleius, Psyche and Cupid, and the Theme of Metamorphosis in Eugene Onegin
- 10. "A Higher Audacity": How to Read Pushkin's Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest
- 11. Stabat Pater: Revisiting the "Monumental" in Peter, Petersburg, and Pushkin
- 12. Slavic Gift Giving, the Poet in History, and Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter
- 13. Pushkin's The History of Pugachev: Where Fact Meets the Zero-Degree of Fiction
- III. Part Three: Reading Russian Writers Reading Themselves and Others
- 14. Sorrento Photographs: Khodasevich's Memory Speaks
- 15. Nabokov's Style
- 16. Sologub, Nabokov, and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics
- 17. Exile, Elegy, and Auden in Brodsky's "Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot"
- 18. Joseph Brodsky and the American Seashore Poem: Lowell, Mandelstam, and Cape Cod
- 19. Joseph Brodsky's "To My Daughter" (A Reading)
- 20. Brodsky, Frost, and the Pygmalion Myth
- Index
