Mandel'štam, Osip

Mandel'shtam's poetics: a challenge to postmodernism

by Corrigan, Elena

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Osip Mandel'shtam (1891-1938) is considered by many to have been the best Russian poet of his era. This book is the first attempt to describe in a comprehensive way Mandel'shtam's intellectual world and its effect on his evolution as a thinker.

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…