The Pushkin Handbook (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) by David M. Bethea (PDF)

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The Pushkin Handbook, a collection of studies by leading Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America, and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue. From its beginnings, Pushkin’s oeuvre has accommodated numerous, often competing readings. This book is further testimony to the continuing complexity of Russia’s preeminent writer: his place in the literary and cultural cosmos, his relationship to his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, and his reception and interpretation at various points in history.

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⭐This book is, by the admission of its editors, an updating of “Pushkin: Itogi i problemy izucheniya” (Pushkin: Accomplishments and Problems of Study), a 1966 publication of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. That book, which can still be had from various Russian-book importers, is a wide-ranging and absolutely essential collection of essays by leading Soviet Pushkinists of the time and covered surveys of the poet’s life, with extended essays on his work, divided by genre, critical reception of his works from contemporary readers to the present, as well as reviews of textological problems and source studies.The present volume comes under the imprimatur of the University of Wisconsin, which, since the 1960s has been an important center of Pushkin studies. The present volume skips a massive survey of Russian critical reception found in “Itogi.” (Apparently the editors found no need to update.) But it includes fresh, new insights into his poetry, with essays by M. L. Gasparov and O. S. Muraveva (in Russian), analyses of “Evgeni Onegin by J. Douglas Clayton and Leslie O’Bell (in English) as well as seminal essays by Caryl Emerson (on Pushkin in music and Pushkin as critic), and comparative literary studies of Pushkin in France and England. Pushkin as historian and political thinker are well treated by David M. Bethea and Sergei Davydov (in English).This volume is meant as a scholarly contribution to Pushkin studies. As such, the assumption is that the reader will have a firm grasp of Russian. (A similar collection of essays on Dante would include articles in Italian.) For those admirers of Pushkin who lack access to Russian, “The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin,” edited by Andrew Kahn (from Amazon) is an excellent substitute. Both volumes belong on the shelf of any admirer of Pushkin.

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