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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      12 August 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511606700
      9780521808811
      9780521004930
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606700
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.426kg, 180 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 180 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
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    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Book description

    The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century up to the present day. The first half of the book is devoted to concepts such as versification, poetic language and tradition; the second half is organised along genre lines and examines the ode, the elegy, ballads, love poetry, nature poetry and patriotic verse. All poetry appears in the original followed by literal translations. This book is designed to give readers with even a minimal knowledge of the Russian language an appreciation of the brilliance of Russian poetry.

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    'This book will help students who are making the leap across the apparently daunting gap between coping with spoken Russian or Russian prose and tackling a poetic text … A helpful index of poetic terms and a reassuringly select list of further reading are provided to help those who are entirely new to the topic. The book is … a 'guide to reading, interpreting, and appreciating it' … This aim is most certainly achieved … This book offers a concise and concentrated account of the things that poets can do with words, and readers with texts.'

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Bibliography
    Suggested further reading
    Bibliography
    Akhmatova, Anna, Sochineniia, Washington: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965–83
    Al'fonsov, V. N., and S. R. Krasitskii (eds.), Poeziia russkogo futurizma, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1999
    Baratynskii, E. A., Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
    Batiushkov, Konstantin, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1964
    Blok, Aleksandr, Stikhotvoreniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1955
    Briusov, Valerii, Sochineniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1987
    Brodskii, Iosif, Sochineniia Iosifa Brodskogo, Saint Petersburg: Pushkinskii fond, 1998
    Derzhavin, Gavrila, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1957
    Fet, Afanasii, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1986
    Gippius, Zinaida, Stikhotvoreniia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1999
    Iazykov, Nikolai, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1988
    Iskrenko, Nina, Ili: Stikhi i teksty, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1991
    Ivanov, Georgii, Sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh, Moscow: Soglasie, 1994
    Ivanov, Viacheslav, Stikhotvoreniia, poemy, tragediia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1995
    Kantemir, Antiokh, Sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1956
    Khodasevich, Vladislav, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
    Kibirov, Timur, Kto kuda – a ia v Rossiiu, Moscow: Vremia, 2001
    Kuzmin, Mikhail, Stikhotvoreniia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1996
    Lermontov, Mikhail, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii v dvukh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
    Lomonosov, Mikhailo, Izbrannye proizvedeniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1986
    Maiakovskii, Vladimir, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1955–61
    Mandel'shtam, Osip, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1997
    Nekrasov, N. A., Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1967
    Pasternak, Boris, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy v dvukh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1990
    Prigov, Dmitrii, Napisannoe s 1975 po 1989, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1997
    Pushkin, Aleksandr, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh, Leningrad: Nauka, 1977–79
    Radishchev, Aleksandr, Izbrannoe, Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1949
    Scott, Sir Walter, Poetical Works, London: Macmillan, 1935
    Soloviev, Vladimir, Stikhotvoreniia i shutochnye p'esy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1974
    Sosnora, Viktor, Verkhovnyi chas: stikhi, Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskii pisatel', 1998
    Tiutchev, Fedor, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1987
    Trediakovskii, Vasilii, Izbrannye proizvedeniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1963
    Tsvetaeva, Marina, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1990
    Viazemskii, Petr, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1958
    Zhukovskii, Vasilii, Sobranie sochinenii v chetyrekh tomakh, Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1959–60
    Suggested further reading
    Bilingual anthologies of poetry
    Kelly, Catriona (ed.), An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777–1992, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Contains mainly prose, but also almost one hundred pages of Russian poetry in English translation, with the originals printed in an appendix
    Obolensky, Dimitri (ed.), The Heritage of Russian Verse, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. Originally published as The Penguin Book of Russian Verse, London: Penguin Books, 1962. Offers an excellent selection of major poets with reliable English prose translations
    Smith, Gerald S. (ed.), Contemporary Russian Poetry, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Conceived of as a sequel to the Obolensky; includes the work of many significant poets of the last twenty-five years
    General studies of poetry
    Hofstadter, Douglas, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, New York: Basic Books, 1997. Uses theory and practice of translation as a means to discuss the uniqueness of poetry. One chapter is devoted to Russian poetry, but the entire book raises important questions in a quirky yet highly readable way
    Steele, Timothy, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. While limited to English-language poetry, this book is an accessible and intelligent introduction to many questions that are equally relevant to the Russian tradition
    Russian textbooks on poetry
    Bogomolov, N. A. Stikhotvornaia rech': Posobie dlia uchashchikhsia starshikh klassov, Moscow: Interpraks, 1995
    Gasparov, M. L. Russkie stikhi 1890-kh–1925-go godov v kommentariiakh, Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1993. Republished under the title Russkii stikh nachala II veka v kommentariiakh, Moscow: Fortuna Limited, 2001
    Lotman, Iu. M. Analiz poeticheskogo teksta, Leningrad: Prosveshchenie, 1972. Republished in Iu. M. Lotman, O poetakh i poezii, Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo–SPB, 1996. This work also exists in an English version, though long out of print: Yuri Lotman, Analysis of the Poetic Text, edited and translated by D. Barton Johnson, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1976
    Classic studies of Russian poetry:
    Gasparov, M. L. Ocherk istorii russkogo stikha, Moscow: Nauka, 1984. Republished under the same title – Moscow: Fortuna Limited, 2000. Divides Russian poetry into six periods and highlights for each one the distinguishing features of rhythm, meter, rhyme, and stanzaic forms. Encyclopedic and brilliant, but not an easy read
    Ginzburg, Lidiia, O lirike, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1974, republished under the same title – Moscow: Intrada, 1997. An insightful study of Russian poetry from the elegiac school to the early twentieth century with emphasis on genre and style
    Jakobson, Roman, Language in Literature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Contains numerous seminal essays of poetic analysis as well as influential statements about the nature of poetry
    Recent Western studies of Russian poetry
    Sandler, Stephanie (ed.), Rereading Russian Poetry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Analyses from a variety of theoretical positions of specific poems of both canonic and lesser-known poets
    Scherr, Barry, Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. A detailed yet clear discussion of all aspects of Russian versification
    Wachtel, Michael, The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Focuses on the connection between form and meaning, considering many issues not treated in the present study

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