num_pages: 428
description: Pushkin and Romantic Fashion is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Alexsandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. It focuses on Pushkin's use of the Romantic fragment, especially the link between the fragment and Romantic irony's fundamental and modern questioning of the sources and intentionality of language. In the view of such irony's most eloquent formulator, Friedrich Schlegel, "identity" does not precede speech, but is forged in each improvisational interaction with interlocutor or reader. One finds out who one is by speaking, and all utterances and texts stand in a fragmentary, contingent relation to an accumulating life-text.
language: English
title: Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
titlecomplete: Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
ratings_count: 5
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
publisher: Stanford University Press