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Pushkin and Romantic Fashion

Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
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This book focuses on the interpenetration of culture and personality in the work of Alexander Pushkin, during Russia's Golden Age under Alexander I. The author argues that the fashionable genres of Romanticism offered Pushkin fresh opportunities for self-articulation where no native tradition of individualism existed. She reveals Pushkin's use of the link between the Romantic fragment and Romantic irony's questioning of the sources and intentionality of language. Pushkin may come closest of all major European poets to realising what Schlegel prescribed as the poetics of modernity, because, as common latecomers on the European scene, Russian and German writers shared a fascination with European fashions and a talent for conflating or stepping outside them.
A note to the reader; Pushkin and the fragment: an introduction; 1. The romantic fragment: a genealogy; 2. From epitaph to elegy: Russia's entry into European culture; 3. The foreign fountain: self as other in the oriental poem; 4. 'What's in a name?' the rhetoric of imposture in Boris Godunov; 5. The sense of not ending: romantic irony in Eugene Onegin; 6. How to read an epitaph: the 'Kleopatra' tales; Autoportraiture: an afterword; Notes; Index.
"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought)... It is a major contribution." - William Mills Todd III, Harvard University "Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources... If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's." - Choice
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