Pushkin: Bronze Horseman

Informationen zum Autor Michael Basker is Professor of Russian and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, UK. He is also the editor of The Pillar of Fire: Selected Poems by Nikolay Gumilyov (1999). Klappentext This last and most brilliant narrative poem by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, should form an essential part of all courses in Russian literature. Vorwort Includes an interpretative introduction providing critical readings, linguistic and literary commentary, and a short essay on the context of the poem’s background in St Petersburg Zusammenfassung This last and most brilliant narrative poem by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, should form an essential part of all courses in Russian literature. It combines praise of Peter the Great and his city of St Petersburg with a dramatic account of the devastating flood of 1824 and a lowly individual's resultant insanity. The political, historical, religious, ecological, and metaphysical-existential questions which Pushkin formulates with dazzling power and concision have been the subject of endless critical debate. This student edition includes an interpretative introduction which seeks to accommodate conflicting critical readings, copious linguistic and literary commentary, and a separate short essay on the poem's St Petersburg background. Inhaltsverzeichnis Biographical NotesIntroductionVersificationMajor themesPeterEvgeniiThe elementsConclusionCONTENTSThe Petersburg BackgroundHistoryFlood and disasterPeter's statueLiterary refractionsBibliographyTextual NotesNote on Vocabulary, Style and TextVocabulary

Product details

• Authors: Basker Michael, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich
• Assisted by: Michael Basker (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.08.2000
• EAN: 9781853995750
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-575-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Russian texts; BCP Russian Texts
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Russian, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet