Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299287041 ISBN 13: 9780299287047

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012

Synopsis

Since his death in 1837, Alexander Pushkin - often called the 'father of Russian literature' - has become a timeless embodiment of Russian national identity, adopted for diverse ideological purposes and reinvented anew as a cultural icon in each historical era (tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet). His elevation to mythic status, however, has led to the celebration of some of his writings and the shunning of others. Throughout the history of Pushkin studies, certain topics, texts, and interpretations have remained officially off-limits in Russia - taboos as prevalent in today's Russia as ever before.     The essays in this bold and authoritative volume use new approaches, overlooked archival materials, and fresh interpretations to investigate aspects of Pushkin's biography and artistic legacy that have previously been suppressed or neglected. Taken together, the contributors strive to create a more fully realized Pushkin and demonstrate how potent a challenge the unofficial, taboo, alternative Pushkin has proven to be across the centuries for the Russian literary and political establishments.

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About the Author

Alyssa Dinega Gillespie is associate professor of Russian at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and editor of Russian Literature in the Age of Realism.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299287041
• ISBN 13: 9780299287047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Gillespie Alyssa