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The Superstitious Muse - Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (Paperback)
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The Superstitious Muse - Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the
"mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian
literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed
essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of
intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems
under threat of "erasure" and the question of how writers, and
poets in particular, live their lives through their art is
increasingly moot. The lichnost' (personhood, psychic totality) of
the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that
which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously
mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different
planes of being. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the
poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new
world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and
himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by
ghostly association, Leningrad). This sort of metempsychosis, where
the stories that constitute the Ur-texts of Russian literature are
constantly reworked in the biographical myths shaping individual
writers' lives, is Bethea's primary focus. This collection contains
a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published
essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.
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