Table des matières

Notes on Contributors

Katharine Hodgson et Alexandra Smith

1. Introduction: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry and the Post-Soviet Reader: Reinventing the Canon

• Raw Materials for Revising the Canon
• Poetry and Nostalgia: The Canon and Identity
• Beyond Russian Formalism: The Poetry Canon in the Context of Changes to the Canon of Literary Criticism and Theory
• Multiplicity and Diversity: Facets of the Emerging Canon in the 1990s–2000s

Aaron Hodgson

2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Iosif Brodskii and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Canon in the Post-Soviet Period

• Brodskii’s Initial Reception, 1987–1995
• Brodskii’s Posthumous Reception and Canonisation in Russia
• Posthumous ‘Brodskiimania’: Brodskii in Popular Culture

Alexandra Harrington

3. ‘Golden-Mouthed Anna of All the Russias’: Canon, Canonisation, and Cult

• Iconography, Biographical Mythmaking, and the Hagiographic Epitext
• Akhmatova as Canon-Maker
• Martyrdom and Martyrology
• Akhmatova as Secular Saint and Charismatic Leader
• Iconoclasm and Mass Culture
• Secular Sanctification and the Power of Legend

Natalia Karakulina

4. Vladimir Maiakovskii and the National School Curriculum

• Literature in Soviet Russian Schools
• Maiakovskii in Soviet Russian Schools
• Literature in Post-Soviet Russian Schools
• Maiakovskii in Post-Soviet Russian Schools

Olga Sobolev

5. The Symbol of the Symbolists: Aleksandr Blok in the Changing Russian Literary Canon

Andrew Kahn

6. Canonical Mandel′shtam

• Mandel′shtam Regained
• A Special Relationship to Mandel′shtam: Divergences in the British and American Stories
• Non-Canonical Mandel′shtam
• Coda: Mandel′shtam at Home

Joanne Shelton

7. Revising the Twentieth-Century Poetic Canon: Ivan Bunin in Post-Soviet Russia

Josephine von Zitzewitz

8. From Underground to Mainstream: The Case of Elena Shvarts

• Part One: Textual Criteria
• Shvarts and the Poetic Tradition
• Part Two. Contextual Criteria: Three Keys to Shvarts’s Work
• Shvarts as an Underground Poet
• The Perspective of Women’s Studies
• Zhiznetvorchestvo and Celebrity Culture
• Conclusion

Katharine Hodgson

9. Boris Slutskii: A Poet, his Time, and the Canon

• Life and Times: The ‘Soviet Variable’
• Slutskii’s Poetics: Between Maiakovskii and Brodskii
• Conclusion

Maria Rubins

10. The Diasporic Canon of Russian Poetry: The Case of the Paris Note

• Reclaiming Diasporic Voices: Unity or Difference?
• Plurality of Canons and Russian Diasporic Experience
• The Paris Note: Diasporic Imagination in the Making
• The Crisis of Poetry
• Avant-Garde versus Art Deco
• Poetry versus Cinema: Rivalry and Imitation
• Deracination, Elective Genealogies and Translocal Imagination
• Conclusion

Emily Lygo

11. The Thaw Generation Poets in the Post-Soviet Period

• Changes to the Canon During and After Perestroika
• Canon-Forming Processes
• Educational Syllabuses
• Anthologies
• Influential Commentators
• Conclusions

Alexandra Smith

12. The Post-Soviet Homecoming of First-Wave Russian Émigré Poets and its Impact on the Reinvention of the Past

Stephanie Sandler

13. Creating the Canon of the Present

• Language
• The Macaronic
• Poems as Translations
• Texts in English
• Reception in Russia
• Visual Poetry
• Stories, Not Poems
• Performing the Self

Bibliography

Index