Research Catalog

Title

Poets on poets : the epistolary and poetic communication of Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Rilke / Olga Zaslavsky.

Author

Zaslavsky, Olga

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, [2017]

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Details

Description

x, 197 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke's role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the spcifically Russian poetic paradigm, i.e., the image of Pushkin in the context of Russian literature of the Silver Age. At the same time, both poets' scrutiny of the sublime, the mundane, and the tragic side of practicing poetic craft in the Soviet Union, as in the case of Pasternak, and in exile, as in Tsvetaeva's case, generates the discourse of "empathic attunement." By applying "empathic" discourse towards Rilke, both poets' anxieties abou their future, and that of Russian poetry in general, come to the fore. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature ; Vol. 34

Uniform Title

Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 34.

Alternative Title

Epistolary and poetic communication of Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Rilke

Subject

• T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 > Aesthetics
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 > Aesthetics
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 > Aesthetics
• T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 > Correspondence
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
• T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
• Friendship in literature
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) in literature
• Aesthetics
• Letters

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from Russian and German.

Contents

Introduction -- The literary triangle and the Pushkin myth -- Tsvetaeva and Pasternak: crossed lyrical wires -- Tsvetaeva and Rilke: the lost and found paradise -- Pasternak and Rilke: "safe conduct" -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name index.

Call Number

JFE 19-504

ISBN

• 9781433135309
• 1433135302

LCCN

• 2016039418
• 40027346570

OCLC

979992938

Author

Zaslavsky, Olga, author.

Title

Poets on poets : the epistolary and poetic communication of Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Rilke / Olga Zaslavsky.

Publisher

New York : Peter Lang, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature ; Vol. 34

Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 34.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Translated from Russian and German.

Other Standard Identifier

40027346570

Research Call Number

JFE 19-504