{"product_id":"spqr-in-the-ussr-georgina-barker-9781839540530","title":"SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts's Classical Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010) has earned a place in the canon of great Russian poets for the originality, riotousness, beauty, and deceptive erudition of her poetry. Many of Shvarts's greatest poems were inspired by classical antiquity - the literature, myth, and history of ancient Rome and Greece. Her antiquity is never static: it evolves in response to the seismic changes that Russia underwent during her lifetime. In this in-depth study Georgina Barker follows Shvarts's transcendental and escapist encounters with classical antiquity from wild youth to defiant old age, and discovers Shvarts shaping antiquity to fit herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn appendix of Barker's translations of Shvarts's classical poems and archival transcriptions of previously unpublished poems gives anglophone and russophone readers alike unprecedented access to Elena Shvarts's classical antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgina Barker is Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgina Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839540532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839540530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.77d","brand":"Georgina Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460302647551,"sku":"9781839540530","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7875cd14-9d4f-4aa2-b2d4-87c55260fec0.jpg?v=1777413857","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spqr-in-the-ussr-georgina-barker-9781839540530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}