For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the ""mythopoetic thinking"" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the ""mythopoetic thinking"" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.
David Bethea (Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1977) is a Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research interests include: Pushkin and his era, modern Russian poetry (esp. Khodasevich and Brodsky), Russian religious thought and cultural mythology, Russian émigré literature, Anglo-American vs. Russian modernism, 20th century Russian/Slavic literary theory (esp. influence studies), biography. Among his books are: Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), and Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: David Bethea. Introduction: Caryl Emerson. Part One: Russian Literature: Background Foreground Creative Cognition. 1. The Mythopoetic "Vectors" of Russian Literature. 2. Mythopoesis Writ Large: The Apocalyptic Plot in Russian Literature. 3. Mythopoesis and Biography: Pushkin Jakobson and the Secret Life of Statues. 4. The Evolution of Evolution: Genes Memes Intelligent Design and Nabokov. 5. Relativity and Reality: Dante Florensky Lotman and Metaphorical Time-Travel. 6. Whose Mind is this Anyway? Influence Intertextuality and the Legitimate Boundaries of Scholarship. Part 2: Pushkin the Poet Pushkin the Thinker. 7. Of Pushkin and Pushkinists. 8. Biography (with Sergei Davydov). 9. Pushkin's Mythopoetic Consciousness: Apuleius Psyche and Cupid and the Theme of Metamorphosis in Eugene Onegin. 10. "A Higher Audacity": How to Read Pushkin's Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest. 11. Stabat Pater: Revisiting the "Monumental" in Peter Petersburg and Pushkin. 12. Slavic Gift Giving the Poet in History and Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. 13. Pushkin's The History of Pugachev: Where Fact Meets the Zero-Degree of Fiction. Part 3: Reading Russian Writers Reading Themselves and Others. 14. Sorrento Photographs: Khodasevich's Memory Speaks. 15. Nabokov's Style. 16. Sologub Nabokov and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics. 17. Exile Elegy and Auden in Brodsky's "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot". 18. Joseph Brodsky and the American Seashore Poem: Lowell Mandelstam and Cape Cod. 19. Joseph Brodsky's "To My Dauther" (A Reading). 20. Brodsky Frost and the Pygmalion Myth. Index.
Preface: David Bethea. Introduction: Caryl Emerson. Part One: Russian Literature: Background Foreground Creative Cognition. 1. The Mythopoetic "Vectors" of Russian Literature. 2. Mythopoesis Writ Large: The Apocalyptic Plot in Russian Literature. 3. Mythopoesis and Biography: Pushkin Jakobson and the Secret Life of Statues. 4. The Evolution of Evolution: Genes Memes Intelligent Design and Nabokov. 5. Relativity and Reality: Dante Florensky Lotman and Metaphorical Time-Travel. 6. Whose Mind is this Anyway? Influence Intertextuality and the Legitimate Boundaries of Scholarship. Part 2: Pushkin the Poet Pushkin the Thinker. 7. Of Pushkin and Pushkinists. 8. Biography (with Sergei Davydov). 9. Pushkin's Mythopoetic Consciousness: Apuleius Psyche and Cupid and the Theme of Metamorphosis in Eugene Onegin. 10. "A Higher Audacity": How to Read Pushkin's Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest. 11. Stabat Pater: Revisiting the "Monumental" in Peter Petersburg and Pushkin. 12. Slavic Gift Giving the Poet in History and Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. 13. Pushkin's The History of Pugachev: Where Fact Meets the Zero-Degree of Fiction. Part 3: Reading Russian Writers Reading Themselves and Others. 14. Sorrento Photographs: Khodasevich's Memory Speaks. 15. Nabokov's Style. 16. Sologub Nabokov and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics. 17. Exile Elegy and Auden in Brodsky's "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot". 18. Joseph Brodsky and the American Seashore Poem: Lowell Mandelstam and Cape Cod. 19. Joseph Brodsky's "To My Dauther" (A Reading). 20. Brodsky Frost and the Pygmalion Myth. Index.
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