Mandel'shtam's Poetics: A Challenge to Postmodernism

by Elena Glazov-Corrigan and Elena Corrigan

Osip Mandel'shtam (1891-1938) is considered by many to have been the best Russian poet of his era, and he also wrote a number of critical essays, often considered to be almost impenetrable. Elena Glazov-Corrigan analyses Mandel'shtam's thoughts on poetry and art in the context of the major postmodern literary debates and traces their development throughout his writings. This is the first attempt to describe in a comprehensive way Mandel'shtam's intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802047378
• ISBN13: 9780802047373
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher