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Author Probshteĭn, I͡An, author.

Title The river of time : time-space, history, and language in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary Russian and Anglo-American poetry / Ian Probstein.

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

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Contents Introduction. Forms of time-space (chronotope) in poetry -- Beyond barriers: avant-garde and futurism -- Forms of chronotope in avant-garde poetry -- "The king of time" and "The slave of time": Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Chronotopes of reality and history in the poetry of Osip Mandelstam, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound -- Nature and "the artifice of eternity": the relation to nature and reality for Yeats, Pound and Mandelstam -- "Sailing to Byzantium"-"sailing after knowledge": Byzantium as a symbol of cultural heritage in Mandelstam, Yeats, and Pound -- Fear and awe: Osip Mandelstam's "The slate ode" -- T.S. Eliot: "Liberation from the future as well as the past" -- The waste land as a human drama revealed by Eliot's dialogic imagination -- "Liberation from the future as well as the past": time-space and history in four quartets -- Joseph Brodsky: "The river of time" or "what gets left of a man" -- John Ashbery: "Time is an emulsion" -- Charles Bernstein: "Of time and the line."
Summary This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics.
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Subject Russian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Russian poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Comparative literature -- Russian and English.
Comparative literature -- Russian and English.
Comparative literature -- English and Russian.
Comparative literature -- English and Russian.
Space and time in literature.
Space and time in literature.
History in literature.
History in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Soviet Union.
Modernism (Literature) -- England -- History and criticism.
England.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States -- History and criticism.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Probshteĭn, I͡An. River of time. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2017 9781618116277 (DLC) 2017012872
ISBN 9781618116277 (electronic book)
1618116274 (electronic book)
9781618116260 (hardcover)