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The testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry : reference, trauma, and history
- Title
- The testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry : reference, trauma, and history / Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva.
- Author
- Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA ; London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015.
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- Description
- 296 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight"--
- Subject
- Russian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Postmodernism (Literature) > Russia
- Language poetry > History and criticism
- Poetry, Modern > History and criticism
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States
- Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM > General
- LITERARY CRITICISM > Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Witnessing History: The Voice of Postmodern PoetryPART 1: Post-Communist Traumas, Post-Modernist Testimonies: Reference, History, and Memory in Russian Conceptualism and MetarealismI. The Problem of Reference in Russian ConceptualismII. Parallel Developments in Other Post-Communist Literatures: A Bulgarian Interlude III. Toward a Meta Understanding of Reality: The Problem of Reference in Russian Metarealist PoetryPART 2: Trauma, Reference, and Media Technology in American Postmodernism: The Testimonies of Language PoetryI. The Problem of Reference in Language PoetryII. Rebelling against Poetic Standards: The Defiant Verbal Aesthetics of Language Poetry III. The Emplacement of Language Poetry and Art in Information-Saturated Environments IV. Language Poetry as a Discourse of Trauma V. The Corporeal Response to the Experience of TraumaVI. Conclusion: Trauma and HistoryBibliography Index.
- ISBN
- 9781628921878
- 1628921870
- LCCN
- 2014019997
- 40024361258
- OCLC
- ocn885092579
- 885092579
- SCSB-5780221
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries