Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) - Hardcover

Hasty, Olga Peters

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810113155 ISBN 13: 9780810113152

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This study explores the theme of the myth of Orpheus as master narrative for poetic inspiration and creative survival in the life and work of the great Russian poet. Olga Peters Hasty establishes the basic themes of the Orphic Complex - the poet's longing to mediate between the embodied physical world and an elsewhere, his inability to do so, the primacy of the voice over the visual world, the insistence on concrete imagery, the costs of the poet's gift - and orders her argument in the tragic shape of the Orpheus myth as it worked itself out organically in Tsvetaeva's own life. Hasty's delineation of the connections between the Orpheus myth and other key mythological and literary figures - Blok, Akhmatova, Pushkin, Rilke - in the poet's life and work makes a critical contribution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810113155
• ISBN 13: 9780810113152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267