Mandelstam's Worlds
Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 2020
- ISBN 9780198857938
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages662 pages
- Size 240x163x42 mm
- Weight 1168 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4pp plate section, 13 Illustrations 25
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Short description:
A critical study of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. It positions him in the literary, ideological, and aesthetic culture of his time as a writer embroiled in the changing literary culture and personal ethics of a new world.
MoreLong description:
Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.
Mandelstam is a challenging poet, and this is consequently a densely argued, wide-ranging volume. Overall, Kahn's extensive study undoubtedly provides a significant and welcome contribution to our understanding of Mandelstam's post-Acmeist poetry and its development.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One. Cultural Revolution
The Political culture of a poet
Revolutionary Lyric
Part Two. Poetry and Experience
The 'Slate Ode': poetry as historical consciousness
Verses on Russian Poetry': Literary Politics and the Transvaluation of Values
'Octaves': From the Science of the Mind to the Music of Poetry
Part Three. The Visual and Material Turn
Painting
Moving Pictures
Objects
Part Four. The Ideal of Love
Love's Body
From Mortal to Immortal Love
Part Five. Spaces of Exile
The Voronezh Poems (1934-7) and the Geometry of Exile
Into the Fourth Dimension
A Short Chronology
Selected Bibliography
