Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry : Reinventing the Canon

• Main Author: Katharine Hodgson (auth)
• Other Authors: Joanne Shelton (auth), Alexandra Smith (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers
• Subjects: twentieth-century; literary canon; Soviet Union; poetry; Russia
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia's shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identi...