LEADER 03448nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910972126903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780299159733 010 $a0299159736 035 $a(CKB)111004627525054 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233448 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233448 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10233960 035 $a(PQKB)11207721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444920 035 $a(Perlego)4385994 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004627525054 100 $a19980205d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRealizing metaphors $eAlexander Pushkin and the life of the poet /$fDavid M. Bethea 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299159740 311 08$a0299159744 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translitreration -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Realizing Metaphors, Situating Pushkin -- Why Pushkin -- The Problem of Poetic Biography -- Freud: The Curse of the Literally Figurative -- Bloom: The Critic as Romantic Poet -- Jakobson: Why the Statue Won't Come to Life, or Will It? -- Lotman: The Code and Its Relation to Leterary Biography -- Part II: Pushkin, Derzhavin, and the Life of the Poet -- Why Derzhavin? -- 1814-1815 -- 1825-1826 -- 1830-1831 -- 1836 -- Index. 330 8 $aReaders often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this passionate and authoritative new study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of his two-hundredth birthday, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we as modern readers might "realize"- that is, not only grasp cognitively, but feel, experience-the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely "sculpted" life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both psychologically and artistically. Bethea begins by addressing the influential thinkers Freud, Bloom, Jakobson, and Lotman to show that their premises do not, by themselves, adequately account for Pushkin's psychology of creation or his version of the "life of the poet." He then proposes his own versatile model of reading, and goes on to sketches the tangled connections between Pushkin and his great compatriot, the eighteenth-century poet Gavrila Derzhavin. Pushkin simultaneously advanced toward and retreated from the shadow of his predecessor as he created notions of poet-in-history and inspiration new for his time and absolutely determinative for the tradition thereafter. 606 $aMetaphor 606 $aPoets, Russian$y19th century$vBiography 615 0$aMetaphor. 615 0$aPoets, Russian 676 $a891.71/3 676 $aB 700 $aBethea$b David M.$f1948-$0676823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972126903321 996 $aRealizing metaphors$94360715 997 $aUNINA