Three Metaphors for Life - Derzhavin's Late Poetry

This monograph explores this coexistence of ¿archaist and innovator¿ in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.

List of contents

Preface In Search of a Metaphor: In Place of an Introduction Part 1. Magic Lantern (Projection) Chapter 1. A Text in Performance Shadows Only Pregnant Moments An Attempt in the Dramatic Field Chapter 2. Lanterns and Lanternists Laterna Magica Citizen Robertson The Fantasmagoria Part 2. Rainbow (Refraction) Chapter 1. Unweaving the Rainbow The Meteorological Cycle From Allegory to . . . Allegory Magic Made Simple or Do-It-Yourself Addison and His Pleasures Chapter 2. The Limits of Imitation Apelles and His Lines Camera Obscura The Child of Thaumas Part 3. Garden of Memory (Reflection) Chapter 1. The Keys to Zvanka Beatus, My Brother Essay on Man The Art of Memory A Peculiar Vision: Approaches to the Text Chapter 2. Nine Views Pleasures of the Imagination Choral Vision Fifteen Stanzas of Solitude Chapter 3. The Poet¿s House The Bard Lived There Zvankäs Echo Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: In Place of a Conclusion Notes References

About the author

Tatiana Smoliarova is an associate professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Toronto.

Summary

This monograph explores this coexistence of “archaist and innovator” in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.

Product details

• Authors: Tatiana Smoliarova
• Assisted by: Nancy Workman (Editor), Ronald Meyer (Translation), Nancy Workman (Translation)
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2018
• EAN: 9781618115737
• ISBN: 978-1-61811-573-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 646 g
• Series: Liber Primus
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies