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PUSHKIN AND ROMANTIC FASHION : fragment, elegy, orient, irony

This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name.
Print Book, English, 1996
STANFORD UNIV Press, STANFORD, 1996
9780804727990, 0804727996
1004733695
A note to the reader; Pushkin and the fragment: an introduction; 1. The romantic fragment: a genealogy; 2. From epitaph to elegy: Russia's entry into European culture; 3. The foreign fountain: self as other in the oriental poem; 4. 'What's in a name?' the rhetoric of imposture in Boris Godunov; 5. The sense of not ending: romantic irony in Eugene Onegin; 6. How to read an epitaph: the 'Kleopatra' tales; Autoportraiture: an afterword; Notes; Index.