Three metaphors for life
Subtitle: Derzhavin's late poetry
By: Tatiana Smoliarova ; translated by Ronald Meyer, with Nancy Workman and Tatiana Smoliarova ; edited Nancy Workman
Contributors: Meyer, Ronald, translator; Workman, Nancy, 1962- translator, editor
Series: Liber primus; Liber Primus (Series)
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781618115737
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Russian literature; Metaphor in literature; Optics in literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Symbolism in literature; Meteorology in literature
Other titles: 3 metaphors for life
Work titles: Zrimai︠a︡ lirika
Notes: Translated from the Russian.

Extensive revision of the "Zrimai︠a︡ lirika."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of a metaphor: in place of an introduction; title: Magic lantern (projection). A text in performance ; Shadows only ; Pregnant moments ; An attempt in the dramatic field; title: Lanterns and lanternists. Laterna magica ; Citizen Robertson ; The fantasmagoria ; Rainbow (refraction). Unweaving the rainbow ; The meteorological cycle ; From allegory to ... allegory ; Magic made simple, or do-it-yourself ; Addison and his pleasures; title: The limits of imitation. Apelles and his lines ; Camera obscura ; The child of Thaumas; title: Garden of memory (reflection). The keys to Zvanka ; Beatus, my brother ; Essay on man ; The art of memory ; A peculiar vision: approaches to the text; title: Nine views. Pleasures of imagination ; Choral vision ; Stanzas of solitude; title: The poet's house. The bard lived there ; Zvanka's echo ; Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: in place of a conclusion.