Snapshots of the soul photo-poetic encounters in modern Russian culture

'Snapshots of the Soul' considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close reading...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blasing, Molly Thomasy, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press 2021.
Series:Cornell scholarship online.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009850339106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions Notes
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Prologue: A Century of Photo-Poetic Encounters
  • Introduction. Poetry and Photography: Encounters, Connections, and Change
  • 1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak’s Poetics of Photography
  • 2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics
  • 3. Framing Memory: Brodsky and Photographic Time
  • 4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina’s Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots
  • 5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious
  • Coda. Digital Denied: Poetry and Photography after 1999
  • Notes
  • Index