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Author MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Title Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet muse / David MacFadyen
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents 1. Before Juliet: Jazz and Related Rhythms in Leningrad -- 2. After Dorrit: Joyce, Dos Passos, Hemingway, and Others -- 3. Stealing what Matters: Robert Frost and Boris Sluckij -- 4. Romanticism and Rebellion: Bagrickij and Galczynski -- 5. Children's Poetry: Beethoven Discovers America -- 6. Boris Pasternak and Polish Muse -- 7. Marina Cvetaeva and a Czech Muse -- 8. New Stanzas to Augusta and Byron -- Coda: "He Reminds Me of John Donne": Gavrila Derzavin -- App. Meter and Rhythm in Brodsky's Leningrad Poetry
Summary "MacFadyen focuses on Brodsky's poetic beginnings. Revising the typical, simplistic representation of the young Brodsky and his peers in Western criticism, he demonstrates that Brodsky and his acquaintances absorbed an amazingly wide range of texts, both old and new, and that they read contemporary American, French, German and Polish literature
Through numerous interviews with Brodsky's contemporaries and vast archival research, MacFadyen offers a vital new slant on Brodsky's early verse, providing the first published translations of these poems, examining his work in relation to a broad international spectrum of influences and revealing the art and craft of his poetry."
"Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse will appeal not only to those interested in Brodsky and the cultural influences that shaped his work and literature of the time but to those intrigued with Russian history and culture."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index
Notes Text in English, excerpts of poems in Russian (Cyrillic)
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Subject Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 fast
Brodskij, Iosif Aleksandrovič -- Ästhetik und Poetik. idsbb
Brodsky, Joseph. swd
Subject Soviet literature -- Western influences
Russian literature -- 20th century -- Western influences
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001411309
ISBN 9780773568631
0773568638
1282858823
9781282858824
9786612858826
6612858826