My Petersburg/myself
Subtitle: mental architecture and imaginative space in modern Russian letters
By: Anna Lisa Crone & Jennifer Jean Day.
Contributors: Day, Jennifer Jean, 1973-
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Self in literature.; Space and time in literature.; Authors, Russian -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The uses of space in Petersburg poetry : from neutral description to identification; title: Embattled spirits-selves : elegy and identification with Petersburg spaces; title: Rushing back to nothingness : historical treatments of self and space before and during the revolution; title: Identification with Petersburg, dead or dying; title: Attempts to reverse time : traveling in space in quest of the integral self; title: The visible Petersburg and the dominance of space; title: The buried sun and the invisible Petersburg : a reconstructed writer's idyll; title: Changing, mastering, and amazing spaces; title: Petersburg space as creative and destructive memory : recovered health and tragic sickness in Mandelʹštam and Nabokov; title: Poem without a hero : complexity of the creative self in twentieth-century Russia; title: Conclusion : the russification of Petersburg.