Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet muse / / David MacFadyen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822128903321
• Autore: MacFadyen David <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
• ISBN: 1-282-85882-3; 9786612858826; 0-7735-6863-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 pages)
• Disciplina: 891.71/44
• Soggetti: Soviet literature - Western influences; Russian literature - 20th century - Western influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-206) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Before Juliet: Jazz and Related Rhythms in Leningrad -- After Dorrit: Joyce, Dos Passos, Hemingway, and Others -- Stealing what Matters: Robert Frost and Boris Sluckij -- Romanticism and Rebellion: Bagrickij and Gałczyński -- Children’s Poetry: Beethoven Discovers America -- Boris Pasternak and a Polish Muse -- Marina Cvetaeva and a Czech Muse -- New Stanzas to Augusta and Byron -- Coda: “He Reminds Me of John Donne”: Gavrila Deržavin -- Appendix: Meter and Rhythm in Brodsky’s Leningrad Poetry -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: MacFadyen focuses on Brodsky's poetic beginnings. Revising the typical, simplistic representation of the young Brodsky and his peers in Western criticism, he demonstrates that Brodsky and his acquaintances absorbed an amazingly wide range of texts, both old and new, and that they read contemporary American, French, German, and Polish literature. Through numerous interviews with Brodsky's contemporaries and vast archival research, MacFadyen offers a vital new slant on Brodsky's early verse, providing the first published translations of these poems and examining Brodsky's work in relation to a broad international spectrum of influences to reveal the art and craft of his poetry. Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse will appeal not only to those interested in Brodsky and the cultural influences that shaped his ; work and literature of the time but to those intrigued with Russian history and culture.