Three Metaphors for Life : Derzhavin's Late Poetry
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Liber Primus
ISBN-10
1618115731
ISBN-13
9781618115737
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Imprint
Academic Studies Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 10th, 2018
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
654 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 24.30 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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This monograph explores this coexistence of “archaist and innovator” in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.
The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British service placed on the table before him, the English spinning machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices, such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin’s visual environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and politics of Derzhavin’s poems written in the early nineteenth century, Three Metaphors for Life makes us see this period as a chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity—at once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform, insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.
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