| Description |
481 p. : ill., port. |
| Series |
Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies |
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Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-[451]) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe -- Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation -- The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion -- Pt. 1. Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. Polemics -- Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies -- On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls -- Conversing about god: between the old and the new -- Pt. 3. Intertexts -- Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff -- Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov -- "leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii -- "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii -- the final myth: Pushkin -- conclusion: the reader in perpetuity. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Slutskii, Boris, 1919-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Russian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781934843734 (hardback) |
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9781618111333 (electronic bk.) |
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