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A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet

A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet

Smirnova, Daria S.

Hardcover

Series: Liber Primus

Writing InstructionGeneral Poetry

ISBN13: 9798897830176
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet makes the original and persuasive claim that Brodsky's force as a transnational poet derives paradoxically from an inward-looking stance that privileges the trope of the room and a practice of self-translation that is faithful to his own internal poetics rather than the poetic norms of the target tradition. The resulting bilingual poetics is one that, though not universally accepted by English readers, ultimately had a profound effect on the Anglo-American literary tradition and anticipated certain foreignizing tendencies that have become central to translation studies and theories of transnationalism. No less powerful than the book's thesis is the elegant analyses, which encompass Brodsky's Russian poetry, his translations from Russian to English, and his English-language essays.

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