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The Case for Pushkin’s Original
Comedy
, with
Annotated Text and Translation
with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood
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Topics, Texts, Interpretations
Edited by
“There is truly a need for an ‘other Pushkiniana,’ a volume
that seeks to push Pushkin studies to the borders of subjects
that have been off-limits for many Pushkinists.”
—Angela Brintlinger, author of
Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary
Culture, 1917–1937
Since his death in 1837, Alexander Pushkin—often called the “father
of Russian literature”—has become a timeless embodiment of Russian
national identity, adopted for diverse ideological purposes and
reinvented anew as a cultural icon in each historical era (tsarist, So-
viet, and post-Soviet). His elevation to mythic status, however, has
led to the celebration of some of his writings and the shunning of oth-
ers. Throughout the history of Pushkin studies, certain topics, texts,
and interpretations have remained officially off-limits in Russia—
taboos as prevalent in today’s Russia as ever before.
The essays in this bold and authoritative volume use new
approaches, overlooked archival materials, and fresh interpretations to
investigate aspects of Pushkin’s biography and artistic legacy that have
previously been suppressed or neglected. Taken together, the contribu-
tors strive to create a more fully realized Pushkin and demonstrate
how potent a challenge the unofficial, taboo, alternative Pushkin has
proven to be across the centuries for the Russian literary and political
establishments.
is associate professor
of Russian at the University of Notre Dame.
She is author of
A Russian Psyche: The Poetic
Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva
, also published by the
University of Wisconsin Press, and editor of
Russian Literature in the Age of Realism.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
• SPRING 2012 •
Slavic Studies / Literature & Criticism
June 2012
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“Taboo Pushkin draws on Pushkin’s more
canonical texts to interpret those once seen as
questionable, and vice versa; and it looks at
past interpretations of Pushkin’s work that
ran afoul of official approval at one time or
another, consistently asking hard questions
about religious strictures, obscenity, aesthetic
tastes, and institutions that seek to control
reader access.”
—Stephanie Sandler, author of
Commemorating
Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet
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David M. Bethea and Alexander Dolinin,
Series Editors
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