Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem

ISBN-13: 9780333720400 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 257 str.

L. Loseff; V. Polukhina

Opis

Thirteen scholars have selected a variety of Joseph Brodsky's poems written between 1970 and 1994 for detailed discussion in the context of his whole output. The choice of poems reflects Brodsky's diversity, and together they offer a perspective on this poet.

Recenzje

Brodsky's technically accomplished poems are often obscure, and this admirable, multinational collection will enrich the reading experience of those at the upper-division undergraduate level and above. Choice

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword Singing Without Music; G.Smith Odysseus to Telemachus; L.Zubova On Zhukov's Death; M.Y.Lotman 1867; R.Timenchik I, Intead of a Wild Beast...'; V.Polukhina To Urania; B.Scherr Lithuanian Nocturne; T.Venclova Galatea Encore; L.Burnett The Thought of You is Going Away...; W.Weststeijn Belfast Tune; R.Reid Darling, Tonight I Went Out Late...; S.Kuznetsov On the Centenary of Anna Akhmatova; L.Loseff To My Daughter; D.Bethea

O autorze

DAVID BETHEA Vilas Research Professor of Russian Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA LEON BURNETT Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex SERGEI KUZNETSOV freelance literary and film critic MIKHAIL LOTMAN Professor, Department of Semiotics and Literary Theory, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallin ROBERT REID Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, Keele University BARRY P. SCHERR Mandel Family Professor of Russian and Associate Dean, Humanities, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire GERALD S. SMITH Professor of Russian, University of Oxford ROMAN TIMENCHIK Professor of Russian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem TOMAS VENCLOVA poet and Professor of Slavic Literature, Yale University WILLEM WESTSTEIJN Professor of Slavic Literature, University of Amsterdam LUDMILA ZUBOVA Professor of Russian, St Petersburg University