Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam /

Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam /

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This volume carries out a speculative investigation into how, in some corners of a few of the national traditions of European lyric (namely, the English, Russian, German, and French) from roughly 1730 to 1945, a specific if highly flexible lyric form both shapes and enables responses to and reflecti...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: MacKay, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
European poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
European poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Inscriptions.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Inscription and Modernity
  • 1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription
  • 2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy
  • 3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov
  • 4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe
  • Conclusion
  • Coda: In Descending Sizes
  • Notes
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Index.

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