Russian Silver Age Poetry : texts and contexts   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2185332B

  Author(s)

  Forrester, Sibelan

  City

  Brighton 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781618113528 

  Date of Publication

  2015 

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  600 

  Subject

  Literary Criticism

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Forrester, Sibelan

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

• Description

  Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation—many of them translated especially for this volume—as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.