Realizing Metaphors : Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet

Beschreibung

Neuware - 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. Bethea begins by addressing the influential thinkers Freud, Bloom, Jakobson and Lotman to show that their premises do not, by themselves, adequately account for Pushkin's psychology of creation or his version of the ''Life of the Poet''. He then proposes his own versatile model of reading, and goes on to sketch the tangled connections between Pushkin and his great compatriot, the 18th-century poet Gavrila Derzhavin.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Realizing Metaphors : Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet

Verlag

University Of Wisconsin Press Jan 1989

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0299159744

ISBN-13

9780299159740

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

229B x 154 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 154 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm

Gewicht

363 Gramm

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