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: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic 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:Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-290) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781628921885
9781628921892
DOI:10.5040/9781501326882

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