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Title: |
â I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to leftâ |
| Sub-title: |
The Poetics of Boris Slutsky |
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| By (author): |
Marat Grinberg |
| ISBN10-13: |
1934843733 : 9781934843734 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
486 |
| Weight: |
.838 Kg. |
| Published: |
Academic Studies Press - January 2011 |
| List Price: |
98.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Literary studies: poetry & poets : Jewish studies : Russia |
| Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinbergâ s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutskyâ s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface: Not Quite Platonov: toward a History of Misinterpreting the Poet; The Ur-Suite of 1940/41: "Poems About Jews & Tatars"; The Poet-Historian:Transplantation Added; A Blessed Curse: The Midrash of 1947-53; Looking at the Burned Planet: the Post-Holocaust Verse; The Resurrected Remnant: of Horses & Metapoetics; Writing the Jew: The Poetics of the Father; On Account of the Elegy: within Cemetery Walls; Conversing about God: the Judaic Poetics; Among the Objectivists: Charles Reaznikoff; Blindness & no Insight: David Samoilov; Leader of leaders & mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii; "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii; The Final Myth: Pushkin; Conclusion: The Reader in Perpetuity. |
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