David Bethea

The Superstitious Muse (eBook, PDF)

Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically

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Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618116789
• Artikelnr.: 54272005

Autorenporträt

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.