This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings together memoirs, interviews, and archival research to construct an account of the world of poetry in Leningrad, in which many now-famous figures began writing. The author describes the institutions, official events, unofficial groups, and informal activities that were attended by many young poets, including the pre-eminent poet of this generation, Iosif Brodsky. Alongside a detailed study of Brodsky s work from the early 1970s are close readings...
This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings t...
Literary analysis of 18th/19th-century Russian women writers. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to study restrictions imposed on them in a culture of feminisation influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Provincial authors Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova claim equality as Romanticism eclipses Sentimentalism.
Literary analysis of 18th/19th-century Russian women writers. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to study restrictions imposed on the...