Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam
This volume carries out a speculative investigation into how, in some corners of a few of the national traditions of European lyric (namely, the English, Russian, German, and French) from roughly 1730 to 1945, a specific if highly flexible lyric form both shapes and enables responses to and reflection upon the changing historical horizon--conventionally termed ''modernity''--in which the poets lived and worked
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 303 pages)
9780253112033, 9780253347497, 9781282072855, 9786612072857, 0253112036, 0253347491, 1282072854, 6612072857
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Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Inscription and Modernity
1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription
2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy
3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov
4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe
Conclusion
Coda: In Descending Sizes
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index
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English
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