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Three Metaphors for Life : Derzhavin's Late Poetry / Tatiana Smoliarova; ed. by Nancy Workman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Liber PrimusPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781618115737
  • 9781618115744
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.712 23
LOC classification:
  • PG3312.Z5 S6613 2018
  • PG3312.Z5 .S665 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index
Summary: The 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index

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The 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)