
Two Hundred Years of Pushkin, Volume I
'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-90-420-0884-7 (ISBN)
Description
From his earliest publications onwards Pushkin has been the source of inspiration, and imitation, for other writers, as well as composers, painters and, more recently, film-makers. This book seeks to explore the different relationship his followers have sought with the 'founding father' of modern Russian culture.
Pushkin's Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin takes a variety of approaches. Some contributors to the collection trace the way Pushkin's works provided the template for the characters and stories which were produced in the first decades after his untimely death in 1837. Others reveal the impact the myths surrounding Pushkin's tragic life were used (and abused) by followers, as well as governments of various hues. Yet other studies explore the very precise ways Pushkin's successors used his texts as source material for their own works. 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin offers a series of fascinating insights into the impact that Alexander Pushkin has had on Russian culture over the last 200 years.
Pushkin's Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin will be followed by two further volumes devoted to Pushkin within the SSLP series, Pushkin: Myth and Monument and Pushkin's Legacy.
Pushkin's Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin takes a variety of approaches. Some contributors to the collection trace the way Pushkin's works provided the template for the characters and stories which were produced in the first decades after his untimely death in 1837. Others reveal the impact the myths surrounding Pushkin's tragic life were used (and abused) by followers, as well as governments of various hues. Yet other studies explore the very precise ways Pushkin's successors used his texts as source material for their own works. 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin offers a series of fascinating insights into the impact that Alexander Pushkin has had on Russian culture over the last 200 years.
Pushkin's Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin will be followed by two further volumes devoted to Pushkin within the SSLP series, Pushkin: Myth and Monument and Pushkin's Legacy.
Reviews / Votes
"The editors of Pushkin's Secret should be congratulated for the broad range and varied methodology of their volume." - in: Slavic and East European Journal, 47.3 (Fall 2003)"... a valuable contribution to the field." in: The Russian Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (July 2004)
"...the volume offers yet more insight into Pushkin's legacy and the centrality of reading and writing in Russian culture." - Angela Brintlinger, in: Slavic Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 224-5
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0884-7 (9789042008847)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface. Notes on Contributors. Joe ANDREW: Introduction: Pushkin's Secret. Joe ANDREW: '[She] was brought up on French novels and, consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin. Lyubov KISELEVA: Pushkin in the Mirror of Shakhovskoi. Sander BROUWER: The Bridegroom Who Did Not Come: Social and Amorous Unproductivity from Pushkin to the Silver Age. Barbara LOENNQVIST: The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina. Henrietta MONDRY: On the Subjectivism in Pushkin's Universality: The Case of Rozanov. Diana L. BURGIN: Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins. Christoph VELDHUES: Love and Death in Pushkin's The Stone Guest and Nabokov's Death. Justin DOHERTY: The Pushkin Contexts of Georgii Ivanov's Disintegration of the Atom. Jekaterina YOUNG: Dovlatov's Sanctuary >/I>and Pushkin. Valentina POLUKHINA: Pushkin and Brodsky: the Art of Self-deprecation. Stephanie SANDLER: Pushkin among Contemporary Poets: Self and Song in Sedakova. Helena GOSCILO: Casting and Recasting the Caucasian Captive. Index