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Oxota : a short Russian novel
- Title
- Oxota : a short Russian novel / Lyn Hejinian.
- Author
- Hejinian, Lyn
- Publication
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2547 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 298 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "A verse novel composed of 14-line stanzas inspired by Pushkin's Evgeny Onegin. Between 1983 and 1991 author Lyn Hejinian visited the USSR seven times, often staying with her friends the poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zina in Leningrad. She decided to write a novel reflecting her experiences of literary and lived life in Leningrad and Moscow, and cognizant of a general sense that the Russian novel is stereotypically "long," she determined that hers would be "short." The result is an experimental novel whose structure (271 chapters, each 14 lines long) pays homage to Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (generally regarded to be the first Russian novel: a verse novel composed in 14-line stanzas). Oxota (which means variously "huntress," "hunt," and "desire" in Russian) is a novel in which contexts, rather than contents, are kept in the foreground."--
- Series Statement
- Wesleyan poetry
- Uniform Title
- Wesleyan poetry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Note
- A verse novel.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2547
- ISBN
- 9780819578761
- 0819578762
- OCLC
- 1096304235
- Author
- Hejinian, Lyn, author.
- Title
- Oxota : a short Russian novel / Lyn Hejinian.
- Publisher
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Wesleyan poetryWesleyan poetry.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2547