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SPQR in the USSR

By Georgina Barker

SPQR in the USSR Contemporary literature

SPQR in the USSR

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Since 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fit herself.An appendix of Barker's translations of Shvarts's classical poems and archival transcriptions of previously unpublished poems gives anglophone and russophone readers alike unprecedented access to Elena Shvarts's classical antiquity.Georgina Barker is Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
372
Release Date:
2025-11-10
Publication Date:
2025-11-10
Publisher:
Legenda
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1839540532
ISBN13:
9781839540530
Weight:
641 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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