Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
Contents
Silence and the rest -- Initiating the paradigm: the inexpressible in Russian romanticism -- Osip Mandelstam's many-voiced silentiums -- A figure that leaves you speechless: Joseph Brodsky on death and language -- "A poet is less than a poet": Timur Kibirov's merry logophobia -- Logophobia in the land of logos.