Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance

by Sidney Eric Dement

In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "Monument." In the decades following his death in January 1837, the poem "Monument" was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: the Pushkin Monument. At its dedication in 1880, the interaction between the verbal text and the visual monument established a creative dynamic that subsequent generations of artists and thinkers amplified through the use of allusion, simultaneously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487505523
• ISBN13: 9781487505523
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher