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Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
David M. Bethea
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Description for Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the ... Read more
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691605586
SKU
V9780691605586
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Reviews for Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
Winner of the 1996 Literary Scholarship Award, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages "A sympathetic, inward account of its subject, showing the grandeur, yet modesty, of Brodsky's stance, and finnishing with a suggestive afterword on the future for a bardic veiw of poetry and an umpoetic world ... [Bethea] does justice to a phenomenally giffted writer ... Read more