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The testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry : reference, trauma, and history

Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena, author

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\"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Russian poetry 20th century History and criticism. / Postmodernism (Literature) Russia. / Language poetry History and criticism. / Poetry, Modern History and criticism. / Psychic trauma in literature. / Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia. / Avant-garde (Aesthetics) United States. / Postmodernism (Literature) United States. / American poetry 20th century History and criticism. / LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union).
• ISBN: 9781628921878, 1628921870

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PG3056.L88 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE