Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature - Hardcover
Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature - Hardcover
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by Daria Khitrova (Author)
For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning. Poetry during the Golden Age was not a one-way avenue from author to reader. Rather, it was participatory, interactive, and performative.
Lyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetry's former uses and functions-life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable verse.
Author Biography
Daria Khitrova is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, Formalist poetics, twentieth-century theater and dance, and Russian and European modernism. She has published articles and book chapters on the poetry of Evgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Alexander Pushkin.
