.... Although Davie understood that Pasternak was as much a modernist as T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, he also argued that the Russian's poetry, unlike theirs, sought, on explicitly moral grounds, to maintain conventional syntax and purity of diction, with the result that Pasternak's verse communicates...

.... But, as Tynianov, a consummate theorist of literary evolution, assures his readers: “There are no dead ends in history. There are only interludes.” Yuri Tynianov Russian Formalism Russian poetry modernism literary theory Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

... geography, made it possible to reflect from a distance on the cultural-­historical situation of Russian poetry and, in particular, on its rapid politicization. Thanks to that geographical remove, I felt able to estrange the language of Russian poetry — to revise its characteris- tic ideological...

...Jeffrey M. Perl By way of introducing new English translations of critical works by two French post-Symbolist poets and a Russian Formalist theoretician, the editor of Common Knowledge reflects, as the journal’s twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, on the overlapping political and academic contexts...

... of what cannot be called allusions in the traditional sense (as in his work in the 1990s and 2000s), but rather of some- thing one might liken to broken hypertext links. The language is shot through with vectors that make disparate clichés of Russian poetry and prose collide with the jargon...

...Ostap Kin Abstract This brief essay introduces the work of three contemporary Ukrainian writers whose poems appear here in English translation. The introduction situates their work in the context of modernist and contemporary Ukrainian poetry as well as in the context of Russian invasions...

.... On the intellectual origins of structuralism in Eastern which was published in 1921 as Noveishaia russkaia poeziia and Central Europe and on the connections between Saus- [The latest Russian poetry] (Prague: Tip. “Politika,” 1921...

... years, has taught Hungarian language, literature, and linguistics at the University of London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Iya Kiva 's poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages, and she herself translates contemporary Ukrainian poetry into Russian, as well...

... Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures Emerita at Princeton University, is the author of The Life of Musorgsky; Boris Gudonov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme; The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin; and (with Gary Saul Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics. Recently she has been...

... aestheticism of French literary culture. My title echoes words of Donald Davie to the effect that only a recourse to Russian poetry could have rescued him from an “emer- gency” brought on by French poetic influence. In a series of three articles here, I...

... Dominic Green Bruce B. Lawrence B. Bruce Queen the ofCommon Knowledgeissue Roses Dying of Smell That Tol’ko chto Russian, in poetry Khanin Semyon ofCommon Knowledgereligion...

... Jon Stone , professor of Russian at Franklin and Marshall College, is the author of The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism ; Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s...

... the oligarchic- patriotic class, her sycophantic hanger- on friend, and a migrant laborer hired to paint her apartment — Keti Chukhrov’s Communion presents a clash of social identities and religious and political creeds. Russian readers and audiences are invited both...

... books include A Little Brown Sea ; The Screaming Sky ; Being a Beast ; and Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness . Mikhail Epstein , the Samuel Candler Dodds Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University and founder of the Center for Humanities...

... as the editor of Global Russian Cultures and coeditor (with David Brandenberger) of Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda . Belle Randall has been poetry editor of Common Knowledge since its inception. Her poem “A Child's Garden of Gods” is included in the anthology...

... Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics and has also written on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music. Mikhail Epstein’s numerous books, including After the Future, Transcultural Experiments...

.... Keti Chukhrov, associate professor of art theory and cultural studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities and head of the research department at the State Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, is the author of To Be and to Perform: The Concept of “Theater...

.... She is coauthor of Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics and has also written extensively on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music. 201...

... Latvian poems into Russian. Common Knowledge 19:2 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2073339­ © 2013 by Kevin M. F. Platt 318 —  of irony. dramatic) too (nothing buzz alow background with delivered are musings Even metaphysical poetry. Russian of typical...

... Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Anthony Anemone , professor emeritus of Russian at the New School, is the editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia and cotranslator and editor of “I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries...