All the Same The Words Don't Go Away
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- ISBN 9781934843819
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book brings together twenty five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres or media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, that govern the transposer, audience, and critic. The practice of transposition, however, gives rise to a creative conflict: is there a limit to the amount of ornamentation, pressure, or dilution to which the 'mediated' word can be subject? Finally, the more polemical of the essays included here are structured on the Bakhtinian notion of co-existing 'plausibilities' and points of view. What a carnival approach can uncover in Pushkin that might have surprised and even pleased the poet, what a libretto or play script brings out that the 'true original' hides: here the work of the creator and the critic can overlap in thrilling ways that respect the competencies of each. This title includes an original Preface written by renowned Slavic scholar, David Bethea.
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, with a co-appointment in Comparative Literature. Research interests include Mikhail Bakhtin, 19th-century Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Russian opera and vocal music (especially Musorgsky), and the Russian critical tradition. Her most recent book was The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (2008).
