Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi by Valentine, Sarah

Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781618114433)

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Format: Hardcover
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Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi by Valentine, Sarah

Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi

$119.00
Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi by Valentine, Sarah

Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi

$119.00
Format: Hardcover
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A first full-length critical study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady Aygi (1934-2006), who is considered the father of late-Soviet avant-garde Russian poetry, this book charts the development of Aygi's poetics, which draws equally on Russian poetic and religious tradition, European literature and philosophy, and Chuvash literature, folk culture, and cosmology. Moving chronologically through Aygi's life and work from the 1950s to his final work in the early 2000s, the book concludes with an interview with American poet Fanny Howe about the importance of Aygi's work in translation. The volume places Aygi in the context of twentieth-century poetry of witness and reveals the global significance of his work.

Author: Sarah Valentine
ISBN-10: 1618114433
ISBN-13: 9781618114433
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Sarah Valentine
By Sarah Valentine
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Sarah Valentine earned a PhD in Russian Literature from Princeton University and has received a research fellowship from the Templeton Foundation from Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Writer in Residence Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in PMLA, Slavic and East European Journal and Poetics, and her translation from the Russian, Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi was published by Wave Books in 2011. She teaches English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.

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