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Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal / Vladimir Nabokov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabokov, Vladimir, author.
- Series:
- Princeton legacy library.
- Bollingen series.
- Bollingen Series (General) ; 200
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Versification.
- English language.
- Russian language--Versification.
- Russian language.
- Iambic tetrameter.
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Family.
- Gannibal, Abram Petrovich, 1697?-1781.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Two appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his "term paper" on Pushkin's Ethiopian ancestor.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Notes on prosody
- 1. Prosodies
- 2. Feet
- 3. The Scud
- 4. Tilted Scuds
- 5. Spondees
- 6. Elisions
- 7. The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia
- 8. Difference in Modulation
- 9. Examples of Modulations
- 10. Counts of Modulations in Eugene Onegin
- 11. Other Meters and Rhythms
- 12. Differences in Use of Meter
- 13. Rhyme
- Index
- Abraham Gannibal
- Foreword
- Pushkin's Comments Published During His Lifetime
- Pushkin's Ancestors
- The Documents
- Dates of Abram Gannibal's Birth and Death
- Gannibal's Origin
- Gannibal's Birthplace
- Gannibal's Sister
- Gannibal's Parentage
- Gannibal's Enslavement
- Gannibal in Turkey
- Gannibal and Raguzinski
- Gannibal's First Years in Russia (1706-16)
- Gannibal in Western Europe (1716-23)
- Gannibal and Annibal
- Gannibal's Later Years in Russia (1723-81)
- Conclusions
- Works Consulted
- Index
- Notes:
- Contains 2 works: the 1st work was published in 1964 as appendix 2 of the author's translation of A. S. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin; the 2d work was published as appendix 1.
- Bibliography: p. 162-167.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780691098050
- 0691098050
- 9780691648415
- 0691648417
- 9781400875924
- 1400875927
- OCLC:
- 927444145
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