Velimir Khlebnikov - A Critical Study

Zusammenfassung Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century! having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery. This book provides a broad survey of his work. Dr Cooke's aim is to be both informative and interpretative by mapping out the contours of Khlebnikov's still largely uncharted poetic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Note on transliteration, abbreviations and text; 1. Biography, discourse; 2. The tower of the crowds; 3. The tower of the word; 4. From warrior to prophet - the siege of the tower of time; 5. The single book; Postscript; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Cooke, Cooke Raymond, Cooke Raymond
• Assisted by: Catriona Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.1987
• EAN: 9780521326704
• ISBN: 978-0-521-32670-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Arnold and Caroline Rose Monog; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet