Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) by David M. Bethea (PDF)

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Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet’s intensely sculpted life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea’s portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both psychologically and artistically.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “”Realizing Metaphors” addresses a question that is one of the most exciting and controversial in the field of literary studies—the question of how (if at all) an artist’s life relates to his or her works. . . . Bethea brilliantly succeeds in his task. . . . The result is a book that is a new word both in Pushkin studies and in the field of literary biography.”— Irina Reyfman, Columbia University”After reading “Realizing Metaphors”, I would like to express my delight, first of all, at that which, while not an academic accomplishment, is perhaps something even more rare—the author’s love toward Pushkin. . . . The Pushkin that appears in David Bethea’s book seems to me very much like the original, protean and elusive.”—Olga Sedakova, Russian poet”The book covers immense ground—as an essay on the blindness and insight of four major critic/thinkers (Freud, Bloom, Jakobson, Lotman) and as a rigorous and penetrating study of the relationship of two of Russia’s greatest poets (Pushkin and Derzhavin). I have never read anything quite like it, either as a daring essay in critical theory or a study of Pushkin’s lifelong encounter with his great predecessor.”—William Mills Todd, Harvard University””Realizing Metaphors” addresses a question that is one of the most exciting and controversial in the field of literary studies–the question of how (if at all) an artist’s life relates to his or her works. . . . Bethea brilliantly succeeds in his task. . . . The result is a book that is a new word both in Pushkin studies and in the field of literary biography.”– Irina Reyfman, Columbia University”After reading “Realizing Metaphors,” I would like to express my delight, first of all, at that which, while not an academic accomplishment, is perhaps something even more rare–the author’s love toward Pushkin. . . . The Pushkin that appears in David Bethea’s book seems to me very much like the original, protean and elusive.”–Olga Sedakova, Russian poet”The book covers immense ground–as an essay on the blindness and insight of four major critic/thinkers (Freud, Bloom, Jakobson, Lotman) and as a rigorous and penetrating study of the relationship of two of Russia’s greatest poets (Pushkin and Derzhavin). I have never read anything quite like it, either as a daring essay in critical theory or a study of Pushkin’s lifelong encounter with his great predecessor.”–William Mills Todd, Harvard University From the Publisher The University of Wisconsin Press is proud to announce the “Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies” series, to be edited by David M. Bethea and Alexander Dolinin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The finest minds in Russian literary theory have dealt with the Pushkin phenomenon, among them Yuri Tynianov, Roman Jakobson, Lydia Ginzburg, and Yuri Lotman. The aim of the series is to introduce the western reader to some of the monuments of prior Pushkin scholarship and to establish, through new works on the poet and his era, a dialogue between the best in Slavic and western literary theory and practice. Also planned for the near future are Alexander Pushkin: A Handbook, edited by Bethea and Dolinin, and The Poet Descends to Despised Prose: History and Fiction in the Later Pushkin, by Bethea and Sergei Davydov. About the Author David M. Bethea is Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Khodasevich: His Life and Art; The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction; and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile. Read more

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