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Commemorating Pushkin : Russia's myth of a national poet
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Commemorating Pushkin : Russia's myth of a national poet

Author: Stephanie Sandler
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its seemingly purest form. Irreverent and polemical responses to Pushkin abound, but Russians retain a deep investment in Pushkin's image.".
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Named Person: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Aleksandr S Puškin; A S Pushkin
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephanie Sandler
ISBN: 0804734488 9780804734486
OCLC Number: 52092837
Description: xii, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Transformative myths and acts of possession --
Pushkin is dead : the elegies of Mikhail Lermontov, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Evdokia Rostopchina --
The making of museum culture : the poet's spirit and the work of remembrance --
Solid gold Pushkin : anniversary commemorations and the time lines of a story --
Document, fidelity, and the cinematic image --
Anna Akhmatova's Pushkin : allegories, ethics, grieving for the dead --
Marina Tsvetaeva's Pushkin and the poet's identities --
Andrei Bitov and the mystifications of self and story --
Ending/beginning with Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz.
Responsibility: Stephanie Sandler.
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"Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its seemingly purest form. Irreverent and polemical responses to Pushkin abound, but Russians retain a deep investment in Pushkin's image.".

"Commemorating Pushkin argues that the emotional complexity of Russia's relationship with Pushkin has informed both large-scale cultural institutions and the writings of talented individuals. It assesses twentieth-century museums, anniversary rituals, and films that keep the poet alive.

It shows how Pushkin's self-fashioning was exemplary for Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrei Bitov, and Andrei Sinyavsky. And it goes beyond well-known figures to give names and histories to poets, novelists, actors, filmmakers, scholars, and museum workers who have sustained Russia's myth of a national poet."--BOOK JACKET.

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