Synopses & Reviews
Since the nineteenth century, the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin has been a cultural myth, a figure absolutely central to Russian culture, even to "Russianness" itself. In this volume distinguished American Slavists address Pushkin's writings from a multiplicity of contemporary literary perspectives and investigate some of the most puzzling issues in the poet's life and work.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.
About the Author
DAVID M. BETHEA is Vilas Research Professor of and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Khodasevich: His Life and Art; The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction; and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile.
Table of Contents
Contributors
A Note on Transliteration Editions
Introduction
Part I Puskin: Contemporary Critical Views
The Russians Terpsichore's Soul-Filled Flight: Dance Themes in Eugene Onegin
William Mills Todd III
The Queens of Spades and the Open End
Caryl Emerson
Puskin's Easter Triptych: Hermit fathers and immaculate women, Imitation of the Italian, and Secular Power
Sergej Davydov
Bestuzev-Marlinskij's Journey to Revel and Puskin
Simon Karlinsky
The Couvade of Peter the Great: A Psychoanalytic Aspect of: The Bronze Horseman
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
The Rejected Image: Puskin's Use of Antenantiosis
William E. Harkins
The Role of the Eques in Puskin's Bronze Horseman
David M. Bethea
Part II Puskin: Text and Context
Puskin on His African Heritage: Publication during His Lifetime
J. Thomas Shaw
Odessa-Watershed Year: Patterns in Puskins's Love Lyrics
Walter Vickery
Through th Magic Crystal to Eugene Onegin
Leslie O'Bell
Solitude and Soliloquy in Boris Godunov
Stephanie Sandler
Puskin and Nickolas: The Problem of Stanzas
George J. Gutsche
Puskin's Reputation in Nineteenth-Century Russia: A Statistical Approach
Paul Debreczeny
Puski's Prose Fiction in a Historical Context
Victor Terras
Notes
Works Cited
Index