Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition

by Clare Cavanagh

If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Warsaw on the cusp of the modern age, he could claim neither Russian nor European traditions as his birthright. Describing the poetic movement he helped to found, Acmeism, as a "yearning for world culture," he defined the impulse that charges his own poetry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691036829
• ISBN13: 9780691036823
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 10.0"