Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature
ISBN: 9780299322137
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Wisconsin Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Russian poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism;

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life--in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning. Poetry during the Golden Age was not a one-way avenue from author to reader. Rather, it was participatory, interactive, and performative.
Lyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetry's former uses and functions--life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable verse.

Daria Khitrova is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, Formalist poetics, twentieth-century theater and dance, and Russian and European modernism. She has published articles and book chapters on the poetry of Evgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Alexander Pushkin.

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