Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (eBook)

David M. Bethea (Autor)

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2014
340 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6374-7 (ISBN)

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Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the great Russian poets in the "bardic" mode, is in his relation to others, or the Other.Brodsky's master trope turns out to be "triangular vision," the tendency to mediate a prior model (Dante) with a closer model (Mandelstam) in the creation of a palimpsest-like text in which the poet is implicated as a triangulated hybrid of these earlier incarnations. In pursuing this theme, Bethea compares and contrasts Brodsky to the poet's favorite models--Donne, Auden, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva--and analyzes his fundamental differences with Nabokov, the only Russian exile of Brodsky's stature to rival him as a bilingual phenomenon. Various critical paradigms are used throughout the study as foils to Brodsky's thinking.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Abravanel • Actin • Activation • adventurism • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • Alexander Kushner • Alterity • Andrei Platonov • Anna Akhmatova • Apostrophe • Boris Pasternak • Buskin • Byzantinism • Charles Baudelaire • chelicerae • Chiasmus • Clairvoyance • Constantine P. Cavafy • cosmogony • Cuticle • Das Volk (1945) • Desert of the Heart • dialectical materialism • Diaspora Jew (stereotype) • discourse • dissociation of sensibility • Distaff • edmund wilson • Efim Etkind • Erich Auerbach • Euphemism • excursus • Exocytosis • Flagellum • F. O. Matthiessen • Foreword • Frank Kermode • gentile • George Kline • Gershom Scholem • Gorbunov and Gorchakov • Harold Bloom • Heliconius • Infertility • initial • Intromittent organ • Isopoda • israelites • ital • John Donne • John Shade • Joseph Brodsky • Laertes • Mark Antokolsky • Memoir • Michel Foucault • Milan Kundera • Monotheism • Mr. Adam • Nauka (publisher) • Neoplatonism • Oogenesis • Panagrellus redivivus • patricide • Pentameter • Petrarchan Sonnet • phallogocentrism • Poetry • Pretext • Prostaglandin • Ramism • Relativism • Religio Medici • Requirement • rhetoric • Satires (Juvenal) • Semiosis • Semiotics • Sestet • sfumato • Slavery • Sphingidae • Stalin Epigram • Sylvia Plath • Termite • The End of the Soul • Theodicy • Theory of Forms • The Prophetess (play) • The Republic of Letters • Thomas Nashe • Totalitarianism • underscore • Unpacking • V. • Varlam Shalamov • Vitellogenesis • Vladimir Nabokov • Zbigniew Herbert • Zygote
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6374-0 / 1400863740
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6374-7 / 9781400863747