Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism - Literary Movements, Russian Poetry, General & Miscellaneous Russian Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Before the 1840s, when prose began its hegemony in Russian letters, Romantic poets such as Evgenij Baratynskij (1800-1844) and his great contemporary, Aleksandr Puskin (1799-1837) wrote verse tales which were intended to elevate literature to a philosophical world-view. This work examines the two writers' principal narrative poems, including Puskin's Eugene Onegin. Through a rigorous semiotic investigation, it breaks new ground in the perceptions of Romantic irony and Romantic idealism in Russian literature. Of crucial importance is the linking of the masculine narrator's voice with the feminine ideal omnipresent in these types of poems. The empowering ability of voice is seen as bound to the inherent de-constructing and re-constructing ability of Romantic irony.Editorials
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Beaudoin (Russian language and literature, U. of Denver) offers a semiotic investigation of the verse tales by which Evgenij Baratynskij (1800-44) and Aleksander Pushkin (1799-1837) intended to elevate literature to a philosophical world view. He finds particular importance in the linking of the masculine narrator's voice with the feminine ideal omnipresent in such Romantic poems. The quotations are in both Russian and English. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
March 1, 1997
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1997.
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820430485