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10%OFFMonika Greenleaf - Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony - 9780804727990 - V9780804727990
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Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony

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Description for Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony Paperback. This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.

Pushkin and Romantic Fashion is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Alexsandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. It focuses on Pushkin's use of the Romantic fragment, especially the link between the fragment and Romantic irony's fundamental and modern questioning of the sources and intentionality of language. In the view of such irony's most eloquent formulator, Friedrich Schlegel, "identity" does not precede speech, but is forged in each improvisational interaction with interlocutor or reader. One finds out who ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
Number of Pages
428
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804727990
SKU
V9780804727990
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution."—William Mills Todd III, Harvard University "Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are ... Read more

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