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Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time

1991; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/308673

2325-7687

David M. Bethea, Валентина Полухина,

Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies

Preface Abbreviations Transliteration Acknowledgement Part I. A Stepson of the Empire: 1. The generation of 1956 2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch 3. The northern exile 4. A change of empires Part II. Longing for World Culture: 5. In defence of culture 6. A modern descendant of classicism 7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden Part III. The Mask of Metaphor: 8. A web of metaphors 9. Similarity in disparity 10. Ars est celare artem 11. A form of identity of two versions Part IV. Words Devouring Things: 12. Thing - Veshch 13. Man - thing - number 14. Man - word - spirit 15. An intellectual and poetic tour de force Part V. A Song of Disobedience: 16. Poet versus empire 17. A masochistic joy 18. Speaking into silence Part VI. Image of Alienation: 19. A stern metaphysical realist 20. Man against time and space 21. Credo quia absurdum est Notes Bibliography Index.