Tragic encounters : Pushkin and European romanticism / Maksim Hanukai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanukai, Maksim, author.

Series:

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies.

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

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

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2023]

Summary:

Literary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined their analyses to Western European authors. Maksim Hanukai introduces a new, illuminating figure to this narrative, arguing that Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, can be understood as a tragic Romantic poet, although in a different mold than his Western counterparts.Many of Pushkin's works move seamlessly between the closed world of traditional tragedy and the open world of Romantic tragic drama, and yet they follow neither the cathartic program prescribed by Aristotle nor the redemptive mythologies of the Romantics. Instead, the idiosyncratic and artistically mercurial Pushkin seized upon the newly unstable tragic mode to develop multiple, overlapping tragic visions. Providing new, innovative readings of such masterpieces as The Gypsies, Boris Godunov, The Little Tragedies, and The Bronze Horseman, Hanukai sheds light on an unexplored aspect of Pushkin's work, while also challenging reigning theories about the fate of tragedy in the Romantic period.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Tragedy in the Balkans

2. History as Irony

3. Sublime and Grotesque

4. Modern Tragedy

Coda: Death of a Poet

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780299341435

OCLC:

1378393384