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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794669003321

Autore

Blasing Molly Thomasy

Titolo

Snapshots of the soul : photo-poetic encounters in modern Russian culture / / Molly Thomasy Blasing [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5370-3

1-5017-5369-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

891.71409

Soggetti

Russian poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and photography - Russia - History - 20th century

Literature and photography - Soviet Union - History

Photography in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions Notes -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Prologue: A Century of Photo-Poetic Encounters -- Introduction. Poetry and Photography: Encounters, Connections, and Change -- 1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak’s Poetics of Photography -- 2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics -- 3. Framing Memory: Brodsky and Photographic Time -- 4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina’s Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots -- 5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious -- Coda. Digital Denied: Poetry and Photography after 1999 -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Snapshots of the Soul' considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language,



representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image.