The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry - Reference, Trauma, and History

This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

A propos de l'auteur

Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Dr. Albena (Assistant Professor Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena Vassileva, Vassileva Albena
• Edition: Bloomsbury Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781628921878
• ISBN: 978-1-62892-187-8
• Pages: 304
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet