My Petersburg/myself : mental architecture and imaginative space in modern Russian letters /
Crone, Anna Lisa.
Day, Jennifer Jean,1973-
Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica Publishers,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The uses of space in Petersburg poetry : from neutral description to identification -- Embattled spirits-selves : elegy and identification with Petersburg spaces -- Rushing back to nothingness : historical treatments of self and space before and during the revolution -- Identification with Petersburg, dead or dying -- Attempts to reverse time : traveling in space in quest of the integral self -- The visible Petersburg and the dominance of space -- The buried sun and the invisible Petersburg : a reconstructed writer's idyll -- Changing, mastering, and amazing spaces -- Petersburg space as creative and destructive memory : recovered health and tragic sickness in Mandelʹštam and Nabokov -- Poem without a hero : complexity of the creative self in twentieth-century Russia -- Conclusion : the russification of Petersburg.
Russian literature
Self in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Authors, Russian