Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts

Forrester, Sibelan/ Kelly, Martha M. F.

ISBN 10: 1618113704 / ISBN 13: 9781618113702

Published by Academic Studies Pr, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts
• Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618113704
• ISBN 13: 9781618113702
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.89 kilograms

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Synopsis

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation―many of them translated especially for this volume―as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.

About the Authors

Sibelan Forrester teaches Russian language and literature as well as a regular Translation Workshop at Swarthmore College. She has published numerous articles on Russian poetry (especially Marina Tsvetaeva), and Russian folklore. Her translation of Vladimir Propp’s book The Russian Folktale was published by Wayne State University Press in 2012. She also translates contemporary Russian poetry, most recently that of Maria Stepanova, and her translations of Elena Ignatova’s poetry, Воздушный колокол/The Diving Bell, were published in 2006 by Zephyr Press. She is co-editor of a book of articles on Russian literature, Engendering Slavic Literatures (Indiana UP, 1996, with Pamela Chester) and of a book of articles on East European literature and culture, Over the Wall/After the Fall (Indiana UP, 2004, with Magdalena Zaborowska and Elena Gapova).

Martha Kelly is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press (Fall 2015). She also works on the genre of publitsistika―which overlaps with literary journalism―in the immediately pre- and post-Soviet periods. In connection with this project, she is translating the essays of contemporary poet and scholar Ol’ga Sedakova. She has published articles on Russian modernist poetry, on Chekhov, and on Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago.