The river of time : time-space, history, and language in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary Russian and Anglo-American poetry / Ian Probstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Probshteĭn, I︠A︡n, author.

Series:

Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Russian poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Comparative literature--Russian and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and Russian.

Space and time in literature.

History in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--England--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--United States--History and criticism.

England.

Soviet Union.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction. Forms of time-space (chronotope) in poetry

Beyond barriers: avant-garde and futurism

Forms of chronotope in avant-garde poetry

"The king of time" and "The slave of time": Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky

Chronotopes of reality and history in the poetry of Osip Mandelstam, W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound

Nature and "the artifice of eternity": the relation to nature and reality for Yeats, Pound and Mandelstam

"Sailing to Byzantium"-"sailing after knowledge": Byzantium as a symbol of cultural heritage in Mandelstam, Yeats, and Pound

Fear and awe: Osip Mandelstam's "The slate ode"

T. S. Eliot: "Liberation from the future as well as the past"

The waste land as a human drama revealed by Eliot's dialogic imagination

"Liberation from the future as well as the past": time-space and history in four quartets

Joseph Brodsky: "The river of time" or "what gets left of a man"

John Ashbery: "Time is an emulsion"

Charles Bernstein: "Of time and the line".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Probshteĭn, I͡An, author. River of time

ISBN:

9781618116260

1618116266

OCLC:

974453794