Word Play : Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature / Ainsley Morse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Ainsley, author.

Series:

Studies in Russian literature and theory.

Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, Russian--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Russian.

Experimental poetry, Russian--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children's literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Living Backward: The Childlike in Unofficial Poetry

Prologue. The Dictionary as a Toy Collection: The Avant-Garde Origins of the Childlike Aesthetic

Soviet Alphabet: Early Soviet Children's Literature and Experimental Poetics

Detki v kletke: OBERIU as the First Unofficial Children's Poets

Playing with Words: Late Soviet Experimental Unofficial Poetry and Children's Literature

Vsevolod Nekrasov: We All Come from Childhood

Leonid Aronzon: Naked Child on a Hilltop

Igor Kholin: Buy Your Kids a Poet

Oleg Grigoriev: Children! If You Only Knew

Dmitri Prigov: I Am Fragile and Small

Epilogue "We can't keep hold of big loud letters": The Childlike Aesthetic in Post-Soviet Poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-4328-3

OCLC:

1242234752