Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry

by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton, Alexandra Smith

"The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia's shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation's culture. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013288327
• ISBN13: 9781013288326
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"