Lyric Complicity - 9780299322144

Lyric ComplicityPoetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature\nAuthor(s): Daria Khitrova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press, United States\nImprint: University of Wisconsin Press\nISBN-13: 9780299322144, 978-0299322144\nSynopsis\nFor many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning. Poetry during the Golden Age was not a one-way avenue from author to reader. Rather, it was participatory, interactive, and performative.\n\nLyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetrys former uses and functions-life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable vers.