[PDF] The Poetry And Poetics Of Olga Sedakova eBook

Author : Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299320103

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Olga Sedakova stands out among contemporary Russian poets for the integrity, erudition, intellectual force, and moral courage of her writing. After years of flourishing quietly in the late Soviet underground, she has increasingly brought her considered voice into public debates to speak out for freedom of belief and for those who have been treated unjustly. This volume, the first collection of scholarly essays to treat her work in English, assesses her contributions as a poet and as a thinker, presenting far-reaching accounts of broad themes and patterns of thought across her writings as well as close readings of individual texts. Essayists from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, and the United States show how Sedakova has contributed to ongoing aesthetic and cultural debates. Like Sedakova's own work, the volume affirms the capacity of words to convey meaning and to change our understanding of life itself. The volume also includes dozens of elegant new translations of Sedakova's poems.

Author : Olʹga Sedakova
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781940953021

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At an early age, Olga Sedakova began writing poetry and, by the 1970s, had joined up with other members of Russia's underground second culture' to create a vibrant literary movement - one that was at odds with the political powers that be. This conflict prevented Sedakova's books from being published in the U.S.S.R., they were only available as hand written books. But now Sedakova has published 27 volumes of verse and prose. This is a unique introduction to her work, bringing together a memoir-essay and two poetic works.'

Author : Sarah Kapp
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File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2017
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This dissertation examines the elegiac verse of Olga Sedakova (b. 1949) vis-a-vis the Russian elegiac tradition. One of the foremost poets of post-Soviet Russia, Sedakova is often studied as a religious poet, a philosophical poet, or a contemporary "woman poet." Yet, despite the preponderance of poems designated as elegies in her oeuvre, one label Sedakova continues to elude is "elegiac poet." Employing John Frow's idea of genre as a "constellation" of thematic, rhetorical, and formal features (rather than a specific mode or theme), I argue that the elegy constitutes the most dynamic generic territory in Sedakova's poetic corpus, wherein the poet delineates her poetic identity, grapples with anxieties over her poetic standing, and reaches beyond the boundaries of lyric subjectivity (i.e., the limitations of a singular or gendered lyric "I") in her pursuit of the unknown. Due to the elegy's breadth, this study focuses on two subgenres of the Russian elegy that lay at the heart of the Russian poetic tradition: the churchyard elegy and the elegy on the death of poet. Chapter One considers the history of the Russian churchyard elegy and Sedakova's treatment of its paradigms of mourning and consolation in her poem "Country Churchyard" and her cycle Stelai and Inscriptions. Chapters Two and Three consider Sedakova's engagement with the "Death of the Poet" tradition through intertextual dialogue and use (or subversion) of tropes such as funerary motifs and the mytho-poetic image of the poet-as-martyr in her elegies to Leonid Gubanov and Joseph Brodsky. The ultimate goal of this study is not to confine Sedakova to yet another label, but rather to put the constitutive power of genre as an interpretive framework to use. By examining select poems as elegies, this study lays bare Sedakova's "poetics of meeting." Forging a path across the topography of the elegy, whose landmarks include distinct prosodic and thematic conventions, Sedakova's poetic personae-the wanderer, the stranger, the fellow poet-do not embark upon poetic partings, but poetic meetings with the dead, the unknown other, and the divine

Author : Olga Sedakova
Publisher : Slant Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1639821430

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“Olga Sedakova is a writer of global significance. . .the publishing of this collection is a welcome stage in the reception of her exceptional genius in the West.” So writes Rowan Williams in his foreword to this translation of Old Songs. Born in Moscow in 1949, Olga Sedakova emerged as a leading writer of the late Soviet period. Since 2014, she has been an outspoken critic of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Her writing bears witness to the values of generosity, attention, and non-violence. The poems in Old Songs construct a world shaped by these values, forming a lyric sequence infused with folk wisdom and anchored in moral courage. It is a world brought into being by song, the kind passed down over cradles and on walks through the garden. These poems find their way into your memory and accompany you on your way. Sedakova is not only one of Russia’s most revered contemporary poets but also a scholar and essayist. Often compared to figures such as Czesław Miłosz, she has, with this volume (according to Rowan Williams), succeeded in “conveying the sense of a forgotten directness of perception and relation—not a lost simplicity, exactly, but a larger and more human world. . . .”

Author : Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691261903

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"An essential introduction to contemporary Russian poetry that considers its development alongside post-Soviet Russia's evolving cultural and political landscape"--

Author : Olga Sedakova
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
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ISBN : 9781639821419

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The poems in Olga Sedakova's Old Songs construct a world shaped by generosity, attention, and non-violence, a world brought into being by songs handed down through generations.

Author : Mikhail Epstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571810281

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The last ten years were decisive for Russia, not only in the political sphere, but also culturally as this period saw the rise and crystallization of Russian postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifestations of this crucial cultural trend. Exploring Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, they provide a point of departure and a valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies which is currently insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. A brief but useful "Who's Who in Russian Postmodernism" as an appendix introduces many authors who have never before appeared in a reference work of this kind and renders this book essential reading for those interested in the latest trends in Russian intellectual life.

Author : Olʹga Sedakova
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756913

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Olga Sedakova, one of Russia's great living poets, is also a deep and brilliant thinker. This collection of essays, her first in English, demonstrates that the legacy of such poet-essayists as Osip Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky lives on in Russian culture. Andrew Wachtel, Bertha and Max Dressler Professon of the Humanities Northwestern University --

Author : Galin Tihanov
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
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This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.

Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691154910

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Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.