Pushkin's Monument and Allusion : Poem, Statue, Performance / Sidney Eric Dement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dement, Sidney Eric, 1978- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Bulgakov.

Pushkin.

Russia.

Russian sculpture.

allusion.

cultural history.

cultural memory.

history of reading.

lifelike statue.

monuments.

Russia (Federation)--Moscow.

Local Subjects:

Bulgakov.

Pushkin.

Russia.

Russian sculpture.

allusion.

cultural history.

cultural memory.

history of reading.

lifelike statue.

monuments.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"In August of 1836 Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "Monument." He died a few months later in January of 1837. In the decades following his death, the poem "Monument" was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: the Pushkin Monument. At its dedication in 1880, the interaction between the verbal text and the visual monument established a creative dynamic that subsequent generations of artists and thinkers amplified through the use of allusion, the aesthetic device by which writers reference select elements of cultural history to enrich the meaning of their new creation and invite their reader into the shared experience of a tradition. The history of the Pushkin Monument reveals how allusive practice becomes more complex over time. By the twentieth century, both writers and readers negotiated increasingly complex allusions not only to Pushkin's poem, but to its statuesque form in Moscow and the many performances that took place around it. As the population of newly literate Russians grew throughout the twentieth century, images of the future poet and the naive reader became crucial signifiers of the most meaningful allusions to the Pushkin Monument. Because of this, the story of Pushkin's Monument is also the story of cultural memory and the aesthetic problems that accompany a cultural history that grows ever longer as it moves into the future."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction Dimensions of the Pushkin Monument

1. Pushkin's Poem: Monument and Allusion (1811-1836)

2. Opekushin's Pushkin Monument: Statue and Performance (1836-1880)

3. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita: Crisis of the Future Poet (1880-1937)

4. Toporov's Petersburg Text: Rejecting the Statue (1937-2003)

5. Tolstaia's Slynx: Disfiguring the Monument (1986-2000)

Conclusion Allusion and the Naive Reader

Appendix.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781487532246

1487532245

9781487532239

1487532237

OCLC:

1108619518