{"product_id":"testimonies-of-russian-and-american-postmodern-poetry","title":"Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExecuting a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223697412440,"sku":"9781628921878","price":173.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781628921878.jpg?v=1764914445","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/testimonies-of-russian-and-american-postmodern-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}