Alexandra Harrington

The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (eBook, PDF)

Living in Different Mirrors

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Produktbeschreibung

This book arose from several years of research on Akhmatova. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most acclaimed poets of the twentieth century. Her career falls into two distinct periods, an 'earlier' and a 'later', the dividing line being her period of relative silence between 1925 and 1940. As is often observed, her return to poetry brings with it a sudden and dramatic shift away from a relatively homogenous body of early lyric miniatures to a more diverse and complex style. One of the major unresolved problems in Akhmatova scholarship is that of how the poetics of the two phases are related. Previous attempts to plot her creative trajectory contain internal inconsistencies and are in conflict with one another, often serving to confuse rather than clarify the debate. This book seeks to explore these themes, bringing reconciliation to seemingly disparate views. This book outlines a fresh and coherent framework for the apprehension of Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality, seeing her as a poet who moves beyond modernism in her later period. The appeal to postmodernism, which is in itself innovatory with regard to Akhmatova studies, also allows exploration of a second problematic issue: how to account for the shift in self-presentation in the later verse, and the different concept of poetic self which it advances. This new account of Akhmatova's path to maturity challenges the conventional view of the early Akhmatova as poet in the classical Russian tradition, and of the later Akhmatova as paradigmatically modernist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843317678
• Artikelnr.: 45259405

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Harrington

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Missing Centres, Hints and Evasions - Epistemological Uncertainty in the Early Period
Epistemology and Ontology in the Debate between Acmeism and Symbolism
Epistemology and the Conventions of Lyric Poetry
  Truncated Plot in Akhmatova's Early Lyrics, The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Cinema and Cubism
Avant-Garde Techniques in the Early Poetry
Montage Composition in Lyric Cycles
Towards a Nouvea Roman
The Chameleon Persona
From Epistemology to Ontology
2. Requiem - The Upturned World and Disintegrating Self
The Modern Poetic Sequence
The Paratexts of Requiem
The Inconsistent Speaker and Fragmenting Text
The Transformation of the Speaker
3. Ends and Beginnings, Different Selves and Possible Worlds - Ontological Instability in the 'Northern Elegies'
The Alien World of the Past
The World Next Door
Possible Worlds of the Future
Forking Paths and Other Dramas
Paper Worlds
The World of Fiction, Ironic Beginnings, 4. Non-Meetings and the World Through the Looking Glass - Akhmatova's Late Cycles
The Poetics of Negation and Paradox
Non-Meetings and Non-Being
The Burnt Notebook
Living, Dying and Resurrection
'Midnight Verses'
5. Worlds Within Worlds - Poem Without a Hero
The Text-within-a-Text
Viewing 1913 from 1940 - the Postmodernist Return to Modernism
Akhmatova's Critique of the 1910s
The Surpassing of Modernism
Postmodernist Pla(y)giarism
Converstaion betwewen an Author and an Editor
The Multiple Author
Multiple Endings and Paratextual Paraphernalia
Rough Drafts
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index