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The Word That Causes Death's Defeat : Poems of Memory.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (341 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300127058
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Word That Causes Death's DefeatDDC classification:
  • 891.71/42
LOC classification:
  • PG3476.A324 -- A217 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Style -- PART I. Biographical and Historical Background -- Chapter 1. Youth and Early Fame, 1889-1916 -- Chapter 2. Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1922 -- Chapter 3. Outcast in the New Order, 1922-1935 -- Chapter 4. Terror and the Muse, 1936-1941 -- Chapter 5. War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953 -- Chapter 6. Late Fame and Final Years, 1953-1966 -- PART I I. The Poems -- Requiem -- The Way of All the Earth -- Poem Without a Hero -- PART I I I. Critical Essays -- Bearing the Burden of Witness: Requiem -- Forward into the Past: The Way of All the Earth -- Rediscovering a Lost Generation: Poem Without a Hero -- PART IV. Commentary -- Commentary on Poem Without a Hero -- Appendixes -- Appendix I. An Early Version of Poem Without a Hero -- Appendix II. Poem Without a Hero: -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Sensitive new translations of Akhmatova's great long poems that document both intense personal suffering and cataclysmic national tragedy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Style -- PART I. Biographical and Historical Background -- Chapter 1. Youth and Early Fame, 1889-1916 -- Chapter 2. Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1922 -- Chapter 3. Outcast in the New Order, 1922-1935 -- Chapter 4. Terror and the Muse, 1936-1941 -- Chapter 5. War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953 -- Chapter 6. Late Fame and Final Years, 1953-1966 -- PART I I. The Poems -- Requiem -- The Way of All the Earth -- Poem Without a Hero -- PART I I I. Critical Essays -- Bearing the Burden of Witness: Requiem -- Forward into the Past: The Way of All the Earth -- Rediscovering a Lost Generation: Poem Without a Hero -- PART IV. Commentary -- Commentary on Poem Without a Hero -- Appendixes -- Appendix I. An Early Version of Poem Without a Hero -- Appendix II. Poem Without a Hero: -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sensitive new translations of Akhmatova's great long poems that document both intense personal suffering and cataclysmic national tragedy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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