Taboo Pushkin : topics, texts, interpretations / edited by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dinega, Alyssa W.

Series:

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies.

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Criticism and interpretation.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Appreciation--Russia.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo - Caryl Emerson

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: Beyond Pushkin as Dogma - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie

Part 1: Taboos in Context

Pushkin the Titular Councilor - Irina Reyfman

Why Pushkin Did Not Become a Decembrist - Igor Nemirovsky

Lighting the Green Lamp: Unpublished and Unknown Poems - Joe Peschio

Pushkin and Metropolitan Philaret: Rethinking the Problem - Oleg Proskurin

Part 2: Taboo Writings

If Only Pushkin Had Not Written This Filth: The Shade of Barkov and Philological Cover-ups - Igor Pilshchikov

Bawdy and Soul: Pushkin's Poetics of Obscenity - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie

Resexing Literature: Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters - J. Douglas Clayton and Natalia Vesselova

The Poetics of Dry Transgression in Pushkin's Necro-Erotic Verse - Jonathan Brooks Platt

The Blasphemies of The Gabrieliad - Andrew Kahn

Politics and Poetry: The "Anti-Polish" Poems and "I built myself a monument not made by human hands" - Katya Hokanson

Part 3: Taboo Readings

Taboo and the Family Romance in The Captain's Daughter- David M. Bethea

Through the Lens of Soviet Psychoanalysis and Utopian Dreams of the 1920s: Ivan Ermakov's Readings of Pushkin's Poetry - Alexandra Smith

The Red Pushkin and the Writers' Union in 1937: Prescription and Taboo - Carol Any

Krzhizhanovsky's Pushkin in the 1930s: The Cleopatra Myth from Femme Fatale to Roman Farce - Caryl Emerson

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-440) and index.

ISBN:

9781283692113

1283692112

9780299287030

0299287033

OCLC:

813928767