The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry

Name: The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva

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This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order.
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality.
Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 306
Release Date:: 2016-06-30
Publication Date:: 2016-06-30
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1501322664
ISBN13:: 9781501322662
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 446 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.7 cm

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