The Russian Revolution and its grim aftermath transformed the world into which Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) had been born, radically altering the poet's life and art. At the time of the Revolution, Akhmatova's exquisite love lyrics had made her one of Russia's leading poets, but the mass social forces unleashed by the Revolution were inimical to her lyric genius. In the 1920's her work was subjected to vicious ideological attacks in the press and was officially barred from. publication. Akhmatova fell silent. When she began ...
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The Russian Revolution and its grim aftermath transformed the world into which Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) had been born, radically altering the poet's life and art. At the time of the Revolution, Akhmatova's exquisite love lyrics had made her one of Russia's leading poets, but the mass social forces unleashed by the Revolution were inimical to her lyric genius. In the 1920's her work was subjected to vicious ideological attacks in the press and was officially barred from. publication. Akhmatova fell silent. When she began writing again in the late 1930s, her poetry was much changed--formally, thematically, and technically. In contrast to the relative simplicity of the early erotic miniatures, the later poetry speaks in riddles, flaunting its own opacity. The author places the later work in its socio-cultural context through close readings of the major texts. The dominant metapoetic themes of the later poetry are taken as a point of. departure: they speak both to the poet's plight in society (repression, silencing) and to the array of means employed to transcend that plight (indirection, concealment, obfuscation). The theme of concealment highlights one of the most salient aspects of the later poetry--its saturation with allusions and quotations drawn from Russian and Western European literature. These allusions are interpreted through analyses of the complex relations between the source text and. Akhmatova's poems. In contrast to the relatively unified image of the lyrical persona in the early verse, the poet's self-representation in the later poetry features a multiplicity of masks and guises. Throughout, the author traces the genesis and transfigurations of these images of self. Quoted texts are given in Russian and in English translation.
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Minor rubbing, some light page-edge soil, VG. 22x14cm, xii, 274 pp. Contents: Secrets of the Craft; Akhmatova's Song of the Motherland: The Framing Texts of 'Requiem'; "Prehistory": A Russian Creation Myth; The Poet's Lot in 'Poem Without a Hero'; The Poet's Transfiguration in 'The Sweetbrier Blooms'; The Design of Memory.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x6x0; Stanford University Press, 1992; no additional printings indicated; xii, 274pp. Ex-library hardcover with minimal markings--ONLY ink stamps on page block edges, "withdrawn" stamp on title page. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; wear to edges of green cloth boards is very minor, silver foil titling remains bright and bold; text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket in VG condition. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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