Three Metaphors for Life
Regular price
€90.99
A01=Tatiana Smoliarova
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Tatiana Smoliarova
automatic-update
B06=Ronald Meyer
B10=Nancy Workman
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=DSBD
COP=United States
Country-House poetry
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Derzhavin
Eighteenth Century
Enlightenment
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
History of Science
Language_English
Literature and Architecture
Literature and Technology
Metaphor
Optics
PA=Available
Palladio and Palladianism
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
Russian Poetry and Poetics
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781618115737
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2018
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British service placed on the table before him, the English spinning machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices, such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin’s visual environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and politics of Derzhavin’s poems written in the early nineteenth century, Three Metaphors for Life makes us see this period as a chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity—at once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform, insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.
Tatiana Smoliarova is an associate professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Toronto.
