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Assignment 2-3 (Week 3)

 

Assignment for Week III

Patterns of Identity and Cultural Archetypes. A Comparative Perspective: Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Gumilev, Mayakovsky

 How can we describe the new poetry of the city and cultural paradigms (“Rome,” “Petersburg,” “Antiquity,” “Cinematograph’, etc.)? What is special about Mandelstam’s approach?

 Reading: Камень (the second book of poetry, 1916). Main focus on the later poems: “Notre Dame,” «Петербургские строфы», «Кинематограф», «Домби и сын», «Есть иволги в лесах», «Я не слыхал рассказов Оссиана...», «Бессонница, Гомер, тугие паруса...», «Посох» (ср. «Чаадаев»), «Я не увижу знаменитой ‘Федры’»

Essays: «Пушкин и Скрябин». Continue with the discussion of Mandelstams early essays («О собеседнике» [полемика с Ивановым], «Петр Чаадаев» [историческая установка], «Утро Акмеизма» [полемика с футуристами])

Selections of the new citypoems.

Read: Анненский («Петербург»), Блок («Петр»), Akhmatova («Стихи о Петербурге»), Gumilev («Венеция»), Mayakovsky («Еще Петербург»)

 Further reading:

 Ivask, George and H.W. Tjalsma. Antologiia peterburgskoj poezii. Acmeists and Others: An Anthology. Munich, 1973.

 Scholarship: 

Ivask, George and H.W. Tjalsma. Antologiia peterburgskoj poezii. Acmeists and Others: An Anthology. Munich, 1973.

Ronen, O., . "Leksicheskii povtor, podtekst i smysl v poetike Osipa  Mandel'shtama." Slavic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Kiril Taranovskii. Edited by R. Jakobson et al. The Hague, 1973

______. An Approach to Mandel'stam (Bibliotheca Slavic Hirosolymitana). Jerusalem. 1983, pp. VII-XXI.

Timenchik, R., "Zametki ob akmeizme" (Russian Literature 7/8, 1974)

Freidin, G., A Coat of Many Colors (Berkeley, 1987),  “Prolepsis in Tristia.

Levin, Iu. I., Segal, D. M., Timenchik, R. D., Toporov, V. N., Tsiv'ian, T.  V. "Russkaia semanticheskaia poetika kak potentsial'naia kul'turnaia paradigma." Russian Literature 7/8 (1974).

Bogomolov, Nik. “Ob odnoj fraktsii ‘Tseka poetov,’” in his Russkaia literatura nachala XX veka I okkul’tizm. M. 1999.

 

 

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