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Realizing Metaphors - Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Paperback, New)
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Realizing Metaphors - Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Paperback, New)
Series: Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
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Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the
poet. In this passionate and authoritative new study, David Bethea
illustrates the relation between the art and life of
nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in
Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve
of his two-hundredth birthday, still speaks to our time. He
indicates how we as modern readers might "realize"-- that is, not
only grasp cognitively, but feel, experience--the promethean
metaphors central to the poet's intensely "sculpted" life. The
Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown
to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both
psychologically and artistically.
Bethea begins by addressing the influential thinkers Freud, Bloom,
Jakobson, and Lotman to show that their premises do not, by
themselves, adequately account for Pushkin's psychology of creation
or his version of the "life of the poet." He then proposes his own
versatile model of reading, and goes on to sketches the tangled
connections between Pushkin and his great compatriot, the
eighteenth-century poet Gavrila Derzhavin. Pushkin simultaneously
advanced toward and retreated from the shadow of his predecessor as
he created notions of poet-in-history and inspiration new for his
time and absolutely determinative for the tradition
thereafter.
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