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The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings

The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings

Wachtel, Michael
Kelly, Catriona
Cross, Anthony

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521620783
ISBN13: 9780521620789
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 21 1999
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This first full-length account of the Russian verse tradition shows how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and specific themes. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of all quotations, Michael Wachtel offers close readings of poems by more than fifty poets from Pushkin to Brodsky, and demonstrates the practical interpretive value of paying attention to poetic form. Ultimately, his book is an inquiry into the nature of literary tradition in a country that has always taken much of its identity from its written legacy.

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