Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and considers the form of the work and its poetic techniques in detail. He offers fresh interpretations of the characters and events of the poem, and sets it against its European background. He discusses its i…
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- Full title :Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin / A.D.P. Briggs.
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This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and considers the form of the work and its poetic techniques in detail. He offers fresh interpretations of the characters and events of the poem, and sets it against its European background. He discusses its influence - notably Tchaikovsky's operatic version - and points to its life-affirming philosophy and spirit of joyfulness. The book includes a chronological chart and a guide to further reading.
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- Publication Date:1992.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1992.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 116 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0511896360, 9780511896361
- oclc:on1240182188
- LC Classification:PG3343.E83
- Dewey Decimal:891.71/3
Table of Contents
1. The poetry of Eugene Onegin. The Russian language. Problems of translation. The Onegin stanza. A close look at two stanzas -- 2. Shades of unreality. The story. The presence of Pushkin. Inherited perceptions of Eugene Onegin. Morning into midnight -- 3. The unreal reputations of Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina. Eugene Onegin. Guilty or not guilty? Imaginary superiority. The Byronic background. In and out of character. Tatyana Larina. The two Tatyanas and two Eugenes. The two rejection scenes. The earlier Tatyana -- 4. Olga, Lensky and the duel. The younger sister. Vladimir Lensky. The duel. Why did he do it? -- 5. It is in verse, but is it a novel? 'The careless fruit of my amusements'. An educated pen. In search of the serious content. Privacy of conscience and moral awareness. History and fate. The possibility and closeness of happiness. Dealing with death. Knowledge of human nature. Eugene Onegin as a landmark.
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