Osip
Mandelstam
and the Modernist Paradigm
1900-2000
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| The focus of the seminar is Osip Mandlestam’s oeuvre
as an expression of Russian modernism; the chief aim is a close reading
of his poetry and prose in context (contemporary poetry, culture and
politics, criticism and scholarship). Themes to be explored include:
Mandelstam’s background in Russian Symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok, Annensky, Kuzmin); Acmeism; Mandelstam's reception in the context of
contemporary letters, scholarship, and cultural and political
history; the function of poetry in modern Russian culture; poet as
citizen and martyr; Mandelstam's Acmeism and the cultural paradigm of
Soviet civilization; construction of a poet's biography and
contemporary cultural theory (sociology, psychoanalysis, Formalism,
Bakhtin); Mandelstam and the late Soviet/post-Soviet experience
(Sots-Art, Timur Kibirov, Sergei Gandlevsky).
Open to graduate students
and advanced undergraduates who are familiar with and have a
strong interest in Russian literary history, Russian and/or modernist
poetry. Requirements:
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