Marina Tsvetaeva
Subtitle: poetics of appropriation
By: Michael Makin.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: T͡S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: This is the first extended study of the poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), one of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century.

Tsvetaeva's work has an originality and diversity that has been hitherto neglected by critics. Michael Makin's book examines in depth her entire poetic output, paying particular attention to the appropriation, and frequent distortion, of familiar literary material in her lyrical, dramatic, and narrative verse. Major chapters are devoted to the long narrative poems, the mature lyric verse, and the verse plays, on which very little has so far been written.

Extensive quotations appear in Russian and in the author's own translations. Highly readable and deeply researched, Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of Appropriation will be invaluable for all readers and students of this most important of Russian poets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-340) and indexes.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford University, 1985) presented under title: Rewriting the inherited text in the poetic works of Marina Tsvetaeva.