Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque
By: David MacFadyen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Brodsky, Joseph, -- 1940-1996 -- Criticism and interpretation; Arts, Baroque
Description: David MacFadyen's comprehensive examination of Joseph Brodsky's poetry and prose redefines his relevance not only in regard to the recent past, with an overview of some problems of post-Soviet aesthetics, but also with regard to the future, since the assessment of the poet's Weltanschauung as essentially Baroque leads to a redefinition of his final role as a cross-cultural, bilingual essayist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-253) and index