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Author Smoli͡arova, Tatʹi͡ana, author.

Title Three metaphors for life : Derzhavin's late poetry / Tatiana Smoliarova ; translated and edited Nancy Workman.

Publication Info. Brighton, MA : Published by Academic Studies Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Liber primus
Note Extensive revision of the "Zrimai͡a lirika."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In search of a metaphor: in place of an introduction -- Magic lantern (projection). A text in performance ; Shadows only ; Pregnant moments ; An attempt in the dramatic field -- Lanterns and lanternists. Laterna magica ; Citizen Robertson ; The fantasmagoria ; Rainbow (refraction). Unweaving the rainbow ; The meteorological cycle ; From allegory to ... allegory ; Magic made simple, or do-it-yourself ; Addison and his pleasures -- The limits of imitation. Apelles and his lines ; Camera obscura ; The child of Thaumas -- Garden of memory (reflection). The keys to Zvanka ; Beatus, my brother ; Essay on man ; The art of memory ; A peculiar vision: approaches to the text -- Nine views. Pleasures of imagination ; Choral vision ; Stanzas of solitude -- The poet's house. The bard lived there ; Zvanka's echo ; Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: in place of a conclusion.
Summary This monograph explores this coexistence of ""archaist and innovator"" in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.
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Subject Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 1743-1816 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 1743-1816.
Criticism and interpretation.
Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 1743-1816. Fonarʹ.
Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 1743-1816. Zhiznʹ Zvanskai͡a.
Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 1743-1816. Raduga.
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Russian literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Metaphor in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Optics in literature.
Optics in literature.
Meteorology in literature.
Meteorology in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Meyer, Ronald, translator.
Workman, Nancy, 1962- translator, editor.
Added Title Zrimai͡a lirika. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018127222
3 metaphors for life
Other Form: Print version: Smoli͡arova, Tatʹi͡ana. Three metaphors for life. Brighton, MA : Published by Academic Studies Press, 2017 9781618115737 (DLC) 2017002163
ISBN 161811574X (e-book)
9781618115744 (electronic book)
9781618115737 (hardcover)