The testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry: reference, trauma, and history

"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-totalita...

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Main Author: Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury 2015
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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"..
Item Description:Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Physical Description:296 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781628921878

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