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The river of time : time-space, history, and language in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary Russian and Anglo-American poetry / Ian Probstein

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Probshteĭn, I︠A︡n
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Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2017.
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In English.
Contents
Introduction. Forms of time-space (chronotope) in poetry -- Beyond barriers: avant-garde and futurism -- Forms of chronotope in avant-garde poetry -- "The king of time" and "The slave of time": Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Chronotopes of reality and history in the poetry of Osip Mandelstam, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound -- Nature and "the artifice of eternity": the relation to nature and reality for Yeats, Pound and Mandelstam -- "Sailing to Byzantium"-"sailing after knowledge": Byzantium as a symbol of cultural heritage in Mandelstam, Yeats, and Pound -- Fear and awe: Osip Mandelstam's "The slate ode" -- T.S. Eliot: "Liberation from the future as well as the past" -- The waste land as a human drama revealed by Eliot's dialogic imagination -- "Liberation from the future as well as the past": time-space and history in four quartets -- Joseph Brodsky: "The river of time" or "what gets left of a man" -- John Ashbery: "Time is an emulsion" -- Charles Bernstein: "Of time and the line."
Summary
This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics.
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9781618116277 (electronic bk.)
1618116274 (electronic bk.)
9781618116260 (hardcover)
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