Russian Silver age poetry
Subtitle: texts and contexts
By: edited and introduced by Sibelan E.S. Forrester and Martha M.F. Kelly
Series: Cultural syllabus; Cultural syllabus
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781618113528; 9781618113702
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Russian poetry; Modernism (Literature); Translations into English; History and criticism
Description: Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation--many of them translated especially for this volume--as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.