{"product_id":"mandelstams-worlds-andrew-kahn-9780198857938","title":"Mandelstam's Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age","description":"Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e or Eliot's \u003cem\u003eWaste Land\u003c\/em\u003e.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the \u003cem\u003eVoronezh Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Kahn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198857934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198857938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2021","brand":"Andrew Kahn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942594543871,"sku":"9780198857938","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c1e2dc73-0c77-422b-a6e3-e3004c22c481.jpg?v=1681493258","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mandelstams-worlds-andrew-kahn-9780198857938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}