Brodsky Through The Eyes Of His Contemporaries

Author : Valentina Polukhina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936235064

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Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries by Valentina Polukhina Pdf

In the new second volume of Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, the collection of interviews features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. This collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary phenomenon and affords a fascinating insight into the American literary scene. Continuing the discussion begun in the first volume, this series of interviews contains important discussions on the style, ideas, and personality of one of the most brilliant and paradoxical poets of our time. Subtle, incisive, and rigorous in its critical evaluation, each discussion significantly advances our understanding of Brodsky's complex poetic world. All discussions are linked by core questions that are carefully and sometimes provocatively formulated. The interviews are published together with many unique photographs from the private archives of the author and the interviewees.

Author : Cynthia L. Haven
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644695166

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The Man Who Brought Brodsky into English by Cynthia L. Haven Pdf

Brodsky’s poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George L. Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996. Kline translated more of Brodsky’s poems than any other single person, with the exception of Brodsky himself. The Bryn Mawr philosophy professor and Slavic scholar was a modest and retiring man, but on occasion he could be as forthright and adamant as Brodsky himself. “Akhmatova discovered Brodsky for Russia, but I discovered him for the West,” he claimed. Kline’s interviews with author Cynthia L. Haven before his death in 2014 include a description of his first encounter with Brodsky, the KGB interrogations triggered by their friendship, Brodsky's emigration, and the camaraderie and conflict over translation. When Kline called Brodsky in London to congratulate him for the Nobel, the grateful poet responded, “And congratulations to you, too, George!”

Author : Smorodinskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787867

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Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian by Smorodinskaya Pdf

This addition to the highly successful Contemporary Cultures series covers the period from period 1953, with the death of Stalin, to the present day. Both ‘Russian’ and ‘Culture’ are defined broadly. ‘Russian’ refers to the Soviet Union until 1991 and the Russian Federation after 1991. Given the diversity of the Federation in its ethnic composition and regional characteristics, questions of national, regional, and ethnic identity are given special attention. There is also coverage of Russian-speaking immigrant communities. ‘Culture’ embraces all aspects of culture and lifestyle, high and popular, artistic and material: art, fashion, literature, music, cooking, transport, politics and economics, film, crime – all, and much else, are covered, in order to give a full picture of the Russian way of life and experience throughout the extraordinary changes undergone since the middle of the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture is an unbeatable resource on recent and contemporary Russian culture and history for students, teachers and researchers across the disciplines. Apart from academic libraries, the book will also be a valuable acquisition for public libraries. Entries include cross-references and the larger ones carry short bibliographies. There is a full index.

Author : L. Loseff,V. Polukhina
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230373396

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Joseph Brodsky by L. Loseff,V. Polukhina Pdf

This is an imaginative work of literary criticism. Thirteen scholars have selected a wide variety of Joseph Brodsky's poems written between 1970 and 1994 for detailed discussion in the context of his whole output. The choice of poems reflects Brodsky's diversity of themes and devices. Together they offer a perspective on one of the most original and profound modern poets. This collection should fulfil the often-expressed need for a comprehensive approach to the study of Brodsky's poetry, which is linguistically as well as intellectually demanding.

Author : Nila Friedberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238099

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English Rhythms in Russian Verse: On the Experiment of Joseph Brodsky by Nila Friedberg Pdf

Readers of poetry make aesthetic judgements about verse. It is quite common to hear intuitive statements about poets' rhythms. It is said, for example, that Joseph Brodsky, the Russian poet and 1987 Nobel Prize laureate, "sounds English" when he writes in Russian. Yet, it is far from clear what this statement means from a linguistic point of view. What is English about Brodsky's Russian poetry? And in what way are his "English" rhythms different from the verse of his Russian predecessors? The book provides an analysis of Brodsky's experiment bringing evidence from an unusually wide variety of disciplines and theories rarely combined in a single study, including the generative approach to meter; the Russian quantitative approach, analysis of readers' intuitions about poetic rhythm, analysis of the poet's source readings, as well as acoustic phonetics, statistics, and archival research. The distinct analytic approaches applied in this book to the same phenomenon complement one another each providing insight alternate approaches do not, and showing that only a combination of theories and methods allows us to fully appreciate what Brodsky's "English accent" really was, and what any poetic innovation means.

Author : Sheelagh Duffin Graham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349223312

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New Directions in Soviet Literature by Sheelagh Duffin Graham Pdf

This is a selection of papers on Russian literature of the Soviet period presented at the IVth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in 1990. The ten articles range from the experimental prose and drama of the 1920s to studies of work by younger writers of the 1980s. The articles include analyses of works by individual writers and examinations of general phenomena, for example, village prose or the way Stalin is presented in literature of the glasnost era.

Author : Zakhar Ishov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810146006

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Brodsky in English by Zakhar Ishov Pdf

A deeply researched account of Joseph Brodsky’s evolution in English as a self-translator and a poet in translation Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian-language poems into English “new originals” have been criticized for their “un-Englishness,” an appraisal based on a narrow understanding of translation itself. With this radical reassessment of the Nobel Prize winner’s self-translations, Zakhar Ishov proposes a fresh approach to poetry translation and challenges the assumption that poetic form is untranslatable. Brodsky in English draws on previously unexamined archival materials, including drafts and correspondence with translators and publishers, to trace the arc of Brodsky’s experience with the English language. Ishov shows how Brodsky’s belief in the intellectual continuity between his former life in the Soviet Union and his new career in the United States, including as Poet Laureate, anchored his insistence on maintaining the formal architecture of his poems in translation, locating the transmission of poetic meaning in the rhythms of language itself. This book highlights Brodsky’s place within the long history of the compromises translation must make between linguistic material and poetic process.

Author : Lev Losev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300163025

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Joseph Brodsky by Lev Losev Pdf

The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-;1996), one of Russia';s great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debate. His life, too, is the stuff of legend, from his survival of the siege of Leningrad in early childhood to his expulsion from the Soviet Union and his achievements as a Nobel Prize winner and America';s poet laureate.In this penetrating biography, Brodsky';s life and work are illuminated by his great friend, the late poet and literary scholar Lev Loseff. Drawing on a wide range of source materials, some previously unpublished, and extensive interviews with writers and critics, Loseff carefully reconstructs Brodsky';s personal history while offering deft and sensitive commentary on the philosophical, religious, and mythological sources that influenced the poet';s work. Published to great acclaim in Russia and now available in English for the first time, this is literary biography of the first order, and sets the groundwork for any books on Brodsky that might follow.

Author : Emily Lygo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poets, Russian
ISBN : 3039113704

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Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975 by Emily Lygo Pdf

Based on author's Ph.D. thesis, from University of Oxford, 2005.

Author : Y. Meerzon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780230371910

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Performing Exile, Performing Self by Y. Meerzon Pdf

This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.

Author : Andrew
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004647985

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Neo-Formalist Papers by Andrew Pdf

The essays have been grouped under the following headings: I. Language and the boundaries of genre.- II. Text and intertext.- III. Authorial status and modernity. Steene).

Author : Irena Grudzińska-Gross
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300149371

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Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky by Irena Grudzińska-Gross Pdf

An intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry...highlights the paralles lives of the poets as exiles living in America and as Nobel Prize laureates in literature...Irena Grudzinska Gross draws on poems, essays, letter, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky. -- pub. description.

Author : Carol Ueland,Ludmilla A. Trigos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793618306

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Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia by Carol Ueland,Ludmilla A. Trigos Pdf

The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.

Author : Alexander Deriev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789197598002

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Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art: No. 4 - 5 by Alexander Deriev Pdf

Author : David MacFadyen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773567399

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Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque by David MacFadyen Pdf

MacFadyen shows that the works of John Donne, the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard and Sestov, and the cities of St Petersburg and Venice inspired in Brodsky a fundamentally Baroque evolution. He provides a compelling and comprehensive examination of Brodsky's poetry and prose in a fascinating overview of some problems of post-soviet aesthetics. The book concludes with a reassessment of Brodsky's final role, that of cross-cultural, bilingual essayist. Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque will appeal to students and scholars of Russian literature as well as the growing body of Brodsky's admirers.