Russian Silver Age Poetry by Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Martha M... - 9781618113528

Name: Russian Silver Age Poetry by Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Martha M... - 9781618113528
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

Russian Silver Age PoetryTexts and Contexts\nAuthor(s): Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Martha M.F. Kelly\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9781618113528, 978-1618113528\nSynopsis\nRussian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translationmany of them translated especially for this volumeas well as critical and fictional texts (so.