Twentieth-century Russian poetry : reinventing the canon /
Twentieth-century Russian poetry : reinventing the canon /
edited by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith.
- 1 online resource (x, 499 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-469) and index.
Introduction : twentieth-century Russian poetry and the post-Soviet reader : reinventing the canon / From the margins to the mainstream : Iosif Brodskii and the twentieth-century poetic canon in the post-Soviet period / 'Golden-mouthed Anna of all the Russias' : canon, canonisation, and cult / Vladimir Maiakovskii and the national school curriculum / The symbol of the symbolists : Aleksandr Blok in the changing Russian literary canon / Canonical Mandelʹshtam / Revising the twentieth-century poetic canon : Ivan Bunin in post-Soviet Russia / From underground to mainstream : the case of Elena Shvarts / Boris Slutskii : a poet, his time, and the canon / The diasporic canon of Russian poetry : the case of the Paris note / The thaw generation poets in the post-Soviet period / The post-Soviet homecoming of first-wave Russian émigré poets and its impact on the reinvention of the past / Creating the canon of the present / Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith -- Aaron Hodgson -- Alexandra Harrington -- Natalia Karakulina -- Olga Sobolev -- Andrew Kahn -- Joanne Shelton -- Josephine von Zitzewitz -- Katharine Hodgson -- Maria Rubins -- Emily Lygo -- Alexandra Smith -- Stephanie Sandler.
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia's shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation's culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin's second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel'shtam, their works and their lives. In the last twenty years many critics have discussed the possibility of various coexisting canons rooted in official and non-official literature and suggested replacing the term "Soviet literature" with a new definition - "Russian literature of the Soviet period". Contributions to this volume explore the multiple factors involved in reshaping the canon, understood as a body of literary texts given exemplary or representative status as "classics". Among factors which may influence the composition of the canon are educational institutions, competing views of scholars and critics, including figures outside Russia, and the self-canonising activity of poets themselves. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic...
9781783740895 1783740892 9781783740901 1783740906 9781783740918 1783740914 1783740876 9781783740871
9781783740871
22573/ctt1st9q03 JSTOR
2019452604
1900-1999
Russian poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Soviet poetry--History and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian poetry.
Soviet poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PG3056
891.71/409
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-469) and index.
Introduction : twentieth-century Russian poetry and the post-Soviet reader : reinventing the canon / From the margins to the mainstream : Iosif Brodskii and the twentieth-century poetic canon in the post-Soviet period / 'Golden-mouthed Anna of all the Russias' : canon, canonisation, and cult / Vladimir Maiakovskii and the national school curriculum / The symbol of the symbolists : Aleksandr Blok in the changing Russian literary canon / Canonical Mandelʹshtam / Revising the twentieth-century poetic canon : Ivan Bunin in post-Soviet Russia / From underground to mainstream : the case of Elena Shvarts / Boris Slutskii : a poet, his time, and the canon / The diasporic canon of Russian poetry : the case of the Paris note / The thaw generation poets in the post-Soviet period / The post-Soviet homecoming of first-wave Russian émigré poets and its impact on the reinvention of the past / Creating the canon of the present / Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith -- Aaron Hodgson -- Alexandra Harrington -- Natalia Karakulina -- Olga Sobolev -- Andrew Kahn -- Joanne Shelton -- Josephine von Zitzewitz -- Katharine Hodgson -- Maria Rubins -- Emily Lygo -- Alexandra Smith -- Stephanie Sandler.
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia's shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation's culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin's second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel'shtam, their works and their lives. In the last twenty years many critics have discussed the possibility of various coexisting canons rooted in official and non-official literature and suggested replacing the term "Soviet literature" with a new definition - "Russian literature of the Soviet period". Contributions to this volume explore the multiple factors involved in reshaping the canon, understood as a body of literary texts given exemplary or representative status as "classics". Among factors which may influence the composition of the canon are educational institutions, competing views of scholars and critics, including figures outside Russia, and the self-canonising activity of poets themselves. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic...
9781783740895 1783740892 9781783740901 1783740906 9781783740918 1783740914 1783740876 9781783740871
9781783740871
22573/ctt1st9q03 JSTOR
2019452604
1900-1999
Russian poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Soviet poetry--History and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian poetry.
Soviet poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PG3056
891.71/409