My Petersburg/myself : mental architecture and imaginative space in modern Russian letters / Anna Lisa Crone & Jennifer Jean Day.

Author/creator Crone, Anna Lisa
Other author Day, Jennifer Jean, 1973-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington, Ind. : Slavica Publishers, ©2004.
Description385 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Russian literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Authors, Russian--Russia (Federation). --Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--In literature.

Contents The uses of space in Petersburg poetry : from neutral description to identification -- Embattled spirits-selves : elegy and identification with Petersburg spaces -- Rushing back to nothingness : historical treatments of self and space before and during the revolution -- Identification with Petersburg, dead or dying -- Attempts to reverse time : traveling in space in quest of the integral self -- The visible Petersburg and the dominance of space -- The buried sun and the invisible Petersburg : a reconstructed writer's idyll -- Changing, mastering, and amazing spaces -- Petersburg space as creative and destructive memory : recovered health and tragic sickness in Mandelʹštam and Nabokov -- Poem without a hero : complexity of the creative self in twentieth-century Russia -- Conclusion : the russification of Petersburg.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Issued in other formOnline version: Crone, Anna Lisa. My Petersburg/myself. Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica Publishers, c2004
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2004009946
ISBN0893573132 (pbk.)
ISBN9780893573133 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PG2988.L4 C76 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold