Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) - Softcover

Bethea, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299159744 ISBN 13: 9780299159740

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

Synopsis

Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely sculpted life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both psychologically and artistically.

About this title

From the Publisher

The University of Wisconsin Press is proud to announce the "Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies" series, to be edited by David M. Bethea and Alexander Dolinin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The finest minds in Russian literary theory have dealt with the Pushkin phenomenon, among them Yuri Tynianov, Roman Jakobson, Lydia Ginzburg, and Yuri Lotman. The aim of the series is to introduce the western reader to some of the monuments of prior Pushkin scholarship and to establish, through new works on the poet and his era, a dialogue between the best in Slavic and western literary theory and practice. Also planned for the near future are Alexander Pushkin: A Handbook, edited by Bethea and Dolinin, and The Poet Descends to Despised Prose: History and Fiction in the Later Pushkin, by Bethea and Sergei Davydov.

About the Author

David M. Bethea is Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Khodasevich: His Life and Art; The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction; and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0299159744
• ISBN 13: 9780299159740
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262