Description
For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning. Poetry during the Golden Age was not a one-way avenue from author to reader. Rather, it was participatory, interactive, and performative.
Lyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetry's former uses and functions-life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable verse.
About the Author
Daria Khitrova is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, Formalist poetics, twentieth-century theater and dance, and Russian and European modernism. She has published articles and book chapters on the poetry of Evgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Alexander Pushkin.
Reviews
We need this book. It addresses a number of important issues that most literary critics and scholars have been aware of, but that no one has attempted to bring together. Moreover, it offers a bold cumulative interpretation of Russian poetic culture of the so-called Golden Age." - Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University
"Khitrova is a sensitive reader, and she writes provocatively, incisively, at times even wittily. She is extremely knowledgeable about both primary literature and secondary sources." - Michael Wachtel, author of A Commentary to Pushkin's Lyric Poetry, 1826-1836
Book Information
ISBN 9780299322106
Author Daria Khitrova
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 610g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm
Lyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetry's former uses and functions-life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable verse.
About the Author
Daria Khitrova is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, Formalist poetics, twentieth-century theater and dance, and Russian and European modernism. She has published articles and book chapters on the poetry of Evgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Alexander Pushkin.
Reviews
We need this book. It addresses a number of important issues that most literary critics and scholars have been aware of, but that no one has attempted to bring together. Moreover, it offers a bold cumulative interpretation of Russian poetic culture of the so-called Golden Age." - Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University
"Khitrova is a sensitive reader, and she writes provocatively, incisively, at times even wittily. She is extremely knowledgeable about both primary literature and secondary sources." - Michael Wachtel, author of A Commentary to Pushkin's Lyric Poetry, 1826-1836
Book Information
ISBN 9780299322106
Author Daria Khitrova
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 610g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm
