Lyric poetry and modern politics : Russia, Poland, and the West / Clare Cavanagh.
Cavanagh, Clare.
2009
PN1356 .C35 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Lyric poetry and modern politics : Russia, Poland, and the West / Clare Cavanagh.
Author Cavanagh, Clare.
ISBN 9780300152968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300152965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xi, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN1356 .C35 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.1/04
Summary Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonstrates how the practice of the personal lyric in totalitarian states such as Russia and Poland did not represent an escapist tendency; rather it reverberated as a bold political statement and at times a dangerous act. Cavanagh also provides a comparative study of modern poetry from the perspective of the eastern and western sides of the iron curtain. Among the poets discussed are Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Yeats, Whitman, Frost, Szymborska, Zagajewski, and Miłosz; close readings of individual poems are included, some translated for the first time. Cavanagh examines these poets and their work as a challenge to Western postmodernist theories, thus offering new perspectives on twentieth-century lyric poetry.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: acknowledged legislation
Courting disaster: Blok and Yeats
Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the body politic
The death of the book à la russe: the Acmeists under Stalin
Akhmatova and the forms of responsibility: the Poem without a Hero
Avant-guarde again, or the posthumous Polish adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Bringing up the rear: the histories of Wisława Szymborska
Counterrevolution in poetic language: Poland's Generation of '68
The unacknowledged legislator's dream: Czesław Miłosz and Anglo-American poetry
Afterword: martyrs, survivors, and success stories, or the postcommunist prophet.

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