My Petersburg/myself : mental architecture and imaginative space in modern Russian letters / Anna Lisa Crone & Jennifer Jean Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crone, Anna Lisa.

Contributor:

Day, Jennifer Jean, 1973-

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Self in literature.

Space and time in literature.

Authors, Russian--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Authors, Russian.

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--In literature.

Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Physical Description:

385 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica, 2004.

Contents:

The uses of space in Petersburg poetry : from neutral description to identification

Embattled spirits-selves : elegy and identification with Petersburg spaces

Rushing back to nothingness : historical treatments of self and space before and during the revolution

Identification with Petersburg, dead or dying

Attempts to reverse time : traveling in space in quest of the integral self

The visible Petersburg and the dominance of space

The buried sun and the invisible Petersburg : a reconstructed writer's idyll

Changing, mastering, and amazing spaces

Petersburg space as creative and destructive memory : recovered health and tragic sickness in Mandelʹštam and Nabokov

Poem without a hero : the complexity of the creative self in twentieth-century Russia

Conclusion : the russification of Petersburg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0893573132

OCLC:

55054925