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The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings
Contributor(s): Wachtel, Michael (Author), Kelly, Catriona (Editor), Cross, Anthony (Editor)
ISBN: 0521620783     ISBN-13: 9780521620789
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.95  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: This first full-length account of the Russian verse tradition shows how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and specific themes. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of all quotations, Michael Wachtel offers close readings of poems by more than fifty poets from Pushkin to Brodsky, and demonstrates the practical interpretive value of paying attention to poetic form. Ultimately, his book is an inquiry into the nature of literary tradition in a country that has always taken much of its identity from its written legacy.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | European - General
Dewey: 891.710
LCCN: 98-20052
Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia