Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to ChekhovDuke University Press, 1995 - 221 sivua Readers have been schooled to see nineteenth-century Russian literature as the summit of social and psychological realism. But in the work of writers from Pushkin to Chekhov, Michael C. Finke discloses a pervasive self-referentiality, a running commentary on the literary conventions these texts seem so wholly to embody. Metapoesis examines how--and more importantly, why--a series of major Russian authors spanning the nineteenth century inscribed commentary on their own poetics into their works of drama, narrative poetry, and fiction. As he explores the process of metapoesis in these works, Finke reveals its communicative function in its time and its interpretive value in our own. Jakobsonian poetics provides the framework for this approach, though Finke also draws freely upon a number of contemporary literary theorists. After elucidating the meaning of metapoesis in works by Pushkin, Gogol, and Chernyshevsky, he reveals its covert functioning in such masterpieces of realism as Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Chekhov's "The Steppe." The result is a new interpretation and deeper understanding of these particular works, which in turn reorient our understanding of linguistic and literary "codes" and of the Russian literary tradition itself. Of special interest to scholars of Russian literature, Metapoesis will also appeal to a broad range of readers and students of comparative literature, literary theory, and poetics. |
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Gogols Metaplay Leaving the Theater after | 23 |
The Aesopic Content of Pushkins The Little House | 44 |
Genre and Incarnation in Dostoevskys The Idiot | 77 |
Aesthetics and Ethics in Tolstoys Anna Karenina | 108 |
A Metapoetic Journey | 134 |
Metapoesis and Tradition | 167 |
Notes | 173 |
Works Cited | 203 |
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addressee Aesop aesthetic Aglaya Anna Karenina Anna's artistic aspect associated audience Bakhtin chapter character Chekhov Chernyshevsky Christ comedy communication situation context conventional countess critics depicted discourse discussion Dostoevsky Egorushka Epanchin episode Estetika Eugene Onegin fabliau Father Khristofor feature figure genre Gogol Golden Ass Government Inspector hero House in Kolomna Idiot interpretation Jakobson kabbalistic Katenin laughter Leaving the Theater letter Levin literary Little House meaning metafiction metaphor metapoesis metapoetic Mikhailov mise en abyme Moisei motif Myshkin Nabokov narrative narrator Nastasya Filippovna notion novel ottava rima painting Parasha tale parody passage person Petersburg play playlet plot poem poem's poet poet-narrator poetic function poetic persona poetry portrait prince Pushkin reader reading recall reference reflects relationship Romantic irony Rousseau Russian literature self-reflexive sense significance soul stanzas Staraia byl Steppe story story's theme tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's tradition Tynianov Varlamov vaudeville verse words writes wrote
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