Brodsky, Joseph

This dissertation establishes sound and music as foundational elements of Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s pre-emigration poetics. Following in the footsteps of sound studies research that considers both how a person’s specific personal and cultural context influences their perception of…

Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century. It asks: what happens when Jewishness enters the Russian literary tradition? And how does Jewishne…