Review (PDF) Joseph Brodsky And The Creation Of Exile (Princeton Legacy Library)
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the great Russian poets in the "bardic" mode, is in his relation to others, or the Other. Brodsky's master trope turns out to be "triangular vision," the tendency to mediate a prior model (Dante) with a closer model (Mandelstam) in the creation of a palimpsest-like text in which the poet is implicated as a triangulated hybrid of these earlier incarnations. In pursuing this theme, Bethea compares and contrasts Brodsky to the poet's favorite models--Donne, Auden, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva--and analyzes his fundamental differences with Nabokov, the only Russian exile of Brodsky's stature to rival him as a bilingual phenomenon. Various critical paradigms are used throughout the study as foils to Brodsky's thinking. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; First Edition (US) First Printing edition (April 4, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691067732
ISBN-13: 978-0691067735
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
Best Sellers Rank: #1,895,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #217 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > Russian #6811 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > United States #9476 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton Legacy Library) Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Subaru Legacy & Forester: Legacy 2000 thru 2009 - Forester 2000 thru 2008 - Includes Legacy Outback and Baja (Haynes Repair Manual) Measures and Men (Princeton Legacy Library) The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932 (Princeton Legacy Library) Public Service Liberalism: Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy (Princeton Legacy Library) Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Princeton Legacy Library) The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise (Princeton Legacy Library) The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics (Princeton Legacy Library) The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges (Princeton Legacy Library) Differential Geometry of Complex Vector Bundles (Princeton Legacy Library) Lectures on Riemann Surfaces: Jacobi Varieties (Princeton Legacy Library) The Global Nonlinear Stability of the Minkowski Space (PMS-41) (Princeton Legacy Library) Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution (Princeton Legacy Library) The Creation: Axis Mundi (The Creation Series Book 1) Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides) Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Series in Culture/Power/History) The Creation of Qatar (Routledge Library Editions: The Gulf)
