The River of Time: Time-Space, History, and Language in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Russian and Anglo-American Poetry (Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy)

Probstein, Ian

ISBN 10: 1618116266 / ISBN 13: 9781618116260

Published by Academic Studies Press, 2017

About this Item

Like new, unread condition.

Seller Inventory # 2031637

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The River of Time: Time-Space, History, and Language in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Russian and Anglo-American Poetry (Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy)
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618116266
• ISBN 13: 9781618116260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry Criticism

About this title

Synopsis

This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics. The author compares the work of major Russian innovative poets Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Joseph Brodsky with that of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and, in spite of the postmodernist “estrangement” of reality, the author proves that similar traces can be found in the work of contemporary American poets John Ashbery and Charles Bernstein. Both affinities and drastic differences are revealed in the poets’ attitudes towards time-space, reality, and history.

About the Author

Ian Probstein is associate professor of English at Touro College. He has published ten books of poetry, translated more than a dozen poetry volumes; and has compiled and edited more than thirty books and anthologies of poetry in translation.