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Mandelstam's Worlds - Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age (Hardcover)
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Mandelstam's Worlds - Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age (Hardcover)
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Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been
habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus
Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an
historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or
Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of
their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of
politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity.
The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's
writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet
was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and
aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in
showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy,
enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand
of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral
compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private
contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book
further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of
the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian
poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works
that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within
society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative
independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of
the revolution.
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