The Development of Russian Verse - Meter and Its Meanings

An exploration of poetic form in the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, first published in 1999.

Sommario

Acknowledgments; Note on translations and transliterations; Introduction; 1. The Russian ballad: passion, betrayal, revenge, and the amphibrachic tetrameter line; 2. The blank verse lyric: '... Again I visited' revisited; 3. The Onegin stanza: from poetic digression to poetic nostalgia; 4. Russian Arcadia: the elegiac distich and classical stylization; 5. Heirs of Mayakovsky: the poet and the citizen; Afterword: the meaning of form; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Riassunto

This 1999 book explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of Russian quotations, Michael Wachtel offers close readings of poems by more than fifty poets, and demonstrates the practical interpretive value of paying attention to poetic form.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Wachtel
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Cross (Editore), Anthony Professor Cross (Editore), Catriona Kelly (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521620789
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62078-9
• Pagine: 344
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 710 g
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Russian L
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava