03515nam 22006135 450 991047890490332120210826021655.01-61811-574-X10.1515/9781618115744(CKB)4100000004816843(MiAaPQ)EBC4790622(DE-B1597)540822(OCoLC)1135592787(DE-B1597)9781618115744(EXLCZ)99410000000481684320191221d2018 fg 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThree Metaphors for Life Derzhavin's Late Poetry /Tatiana Smoliarova; Nancy WorkmanBoston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (319 pages) illustrationsLiber PrimusExtensive revision of the "Zrimai͡a lirika".1-61811-573-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-307) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction to the English Edition --Preface. In Search of a Metaphor: In Place of an Introduction --Part I. Magic Lantern (Projection) --Part II. Rainbow (Refraction) --Part III. Garden of Memory (Reflection) --Pindar, Derzhavin, and the Twenties: In Place of a Conclusion --Notes --References --IndexThe poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British service placed on the table before him, the English spinning machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices, such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin's visual environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and politics of Derzhavin's poems written in the early nineteenth century, Three Metaphors for Life makes us see this period as a chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity-at once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform, insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.Liber Primus (Series)Russian literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMetaphor in literatureSymbolism in literatureOptics in literatureMeteorology in literatureElectronic books.Russian literatureHistory and criticism.Metaphor in literature.Symbolism in literature.Optics in literature.Meteorology in literature.891.712KH 6446rvkSmoliarova Tatianaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1051348Meyer Ronald1051349Workman Nancyedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt.DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910478904903321Three Metaphors for Life2481806UNINA