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This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics.
List of contents
Introduction. Forms of Time-Space (Chronotope) in Poetry Part One. Beyond Barriers: Avant-Gard¿ and Futurism 1. Forms of Chronotope in Avant-Garde Poetry 2. ¿The King of Time¿ and ¿The Slave of Time¿: Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky Part Two. Chronotopes of Reality and History in the Poetry of Osip Mandelstam, W. B. Yeats, and Ezra Pound 1. Nature and ¿The Artifice of Eternity¿: The Relation to Nature and Reality for Yeats, Pound, and Mandelstam 2. ¿Sailing to Byzantium¿¿¿Sailing after Knowledge¿: Byzantium as a Symbol of Cultural Heritage in Mandelstam, Yeats, and Pound 3. Fear and Awe: Osip Mandelstam¿s ¿The Slate Ode¿ Part Three. T. S. Eliot: ¿Liberation from the Future as Well as the Past¿ 1.
The Waste Land as a Human Drama Revealed by Eliot¿s Dialogic Imagination 2. ¿Liberation from the Future as well as the Past¿: Time-Space and History in
Four Quartets Part Four. Joseph Brodsky: ¿The River of Time¿ or ¿What Gets Left of a Man¿ Part Five. John Ashbery: ¿Time Is an Emulsion¿ Part Six. Charles Bernstein: ¿Of Time and the Line¿ Abbreviations Bibliography Index
About the author
Ian Probstein is associate professor of English at Touro College. He has published ten books of poetry, translated more than a dozen poetry volumes; and has compiled and edited more than thirty books and anthologies of poetry in translation.
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Explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics.
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“Ian Probstein’s The
River of Time is an ambitious study of modernist poetry in two major ways …
in the sheer number and variety of the poets discussed in the book … [and] in
the parameters that Probstein sets for his study. … Probstein’s frame of
reference, broad as it is, holds refreshing potential: it allows the author to
move, with varying ease, between numerous voices of Russian and Anglo-American
literary contexts. All too often, in the discussion of modernist literature,
scholars downsize modernism to a rigid and geographically limited canon, which
does not incorporate modernist authors from a broader map of national contexts,
including Russia. While Probstein focuses on the works of some of the central
modernist figures, he also seeks to embrace the complexity and diversity of
modernisms (we can appreciate here the creative mind of an experienced
translator and editor of numerous anthologies).” —B. Tokarsky, University of Cambridge,
Slavonic and East European Review Vol.
96, No. 4
