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Alexander Pushkin

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Alexander Pushkin.

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  • "Alexander Pushkin revisited"@en
  • "Alexander Pushkin revisited"

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  • "Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Alexander Pushkin."@en
  • "Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Alexander Pushkin."
  • "he uncovers Pushkin's terrible weariness and preoccupation with death; and in Eugene Onegin he finds this tangle of thoughts and feelings woven into a perfect cloth. Vickery traces the development of Pushkin's thought and artistry, explains how each work came into being, synthesizes the findings of other scholars, and enriches his analysis with biographical information, including speculations on the circumstances leading to Pushkin's duel and untimely death. His."
  • "Reviews the life of the Russian poet, and offers critical analyses of his major works."
  • "And illustrating his discussion with a wealth of transliterated and translated excerpts, Vickery engenders a deep appreciation of Pushkin in all his subtlety. He also explains the phenomenon of Pushkin, placing him at the dawn of Russia's involvement in the European literary scene and tracing the young writer's exploration of the rich movements of his era, including Classicism, Sentimentalism, and the new Romanticism, as epitomized by Byron. Vickery moves chronologically."
  • "Discussion culminates in a keen critical understanding and clear characterization of a poet whose multi-layered vision and extraordinary craft resonate in readers' minds as well as in the Russian literary tradition."
  • "Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is to Russia what Shakespeare is to England and Goethe is to Germany: a founding figure of a national literature. Modern Russian masters from Leo Tolstoy to Anna Akhmatova have drawn significant inspiration from his poetry, prose, drama, and criticism, particularly his famous play Boris Godunov, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse. For well over a century Russian readers have cherished Pushkin's humor, wisdom, and depth. Yet."
  • "Through Pushkin's best known works, providing expert readings of the 1820 six-canto comic epic Ruslan and Lyudmila, the "Little Tragedies" of 1830, the 1833 "Fairy Tales in Verse," lyric poetry written as late as 1836, and other pieces. In several short poems he reveals the wit, irony, irreverence, and bawdiness made popular by Voltaire; in the "Southern" poems, he finds disillusion, nostalgia, and the torments of love, as well as deep patriotism; in The Bronze Horseman."
  • "The very quality that most distinguishes Pushkin also presents a major obstacle to Western readers: his extraordinary use of language. Pushkin's carefully crafted sounds, meanings, associations, and rhythms cannot be rendered faithfully in any language but Russian. Walter N. Vickery elegantly rectifies this dilemma in this thorough revision of his classic introduction to Pushkin. Recasting each chapter with new ideas and discoveries gathered during the past two decades."

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  • "Databases"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en

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  • "Alexander Pushkin"@en
  • "Alexander Pushkin"

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