{"product_id":"snapshots-of-the-soul-molly-thomasy-blasing-9781501753695","title":"Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003econsiders how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day.\u003c\/b\u003e Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. \u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to \"writing the photograph\" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Thomasy Blasing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150175369X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501753695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 7.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2022","brand":"Molly Thomasy Blasing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993516736767,"sku":"9781501753695","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90729b6f-ad86-49d3-a40e-0e9dcf9c9d57.jpg?v=1683324769","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/snapshots-of-the-soul-molly-thomasy-blasing-9781501753695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}