| Resetting the Margins: Russian Romantic Verse Tales and the Idealized Woman Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), Beaudoin, Luc J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 082043048X ISBN-13: 9780820430485 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| LCCN: 95044269 |
| Series: Studies in European Thought |
| Physical Information: 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before the 1840s, when prose began its hegemony in Russian letters, Romantic poets such as Evgenij Baratynskij (1800-1844) and his great contemporary Aleksandr Puskin (1799-1837) wrote verse tales which were intended to elevate literature to a philosophical world-view. This work examines the two writers' principal narrative poems, including Puskin's "Eugene Onegin." Through a rigorous semiotic investigation, it breaks new ground in the perceptions of Romantic irony and Romantic idealism in Russian literature. Of crucial importance is the linking of the masculine narrator's voice with the feminine ideal omnipresent in these types of poems. The empowering ability of voice is seen as bound to the inherent de-constructing and re-constructing ability of Romantic irony. |