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The
Pushkin Handbook
Edited by David M. Bethea
A Publication of the Wisconsin
Center for Pushkin Studies
David M. Bethea and Alexander Dolinin, General Editors
"This ambitious companion to Russia's greatest poet is
not a dictionary, not an anthology, but a monument that unfolds
like a living museum of fragile contexts easily lost: the life,
the texts, the contexts, the cultural resonances. In this landmark
bilingual project, Russian and American scholars come together
over the ever-expanding miracle of Alexander Pushkin, whose voice
once again transcends all regimes and methodologies."—Caryl
Emerson, Princeton University
The Pushkin Handbook, a collection of new studies by leading
Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America,
and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices
engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue.
Contributors to the volume consider Pushkin in terms of his biography;
his innovations in the forms of lyric, narrative poem, novel
in verse, drama, and fictional prose; his thoughts on history,
politics, and literature; the textual challenges of his work;
and the problems of translating it. Another major focus is Pushkin's
place in the literary and cultural cosmos: his relationship to
his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, his responses to
other European literature, his role within the traditions of
Romanticism and Realism, and his reception and interpretation
by readers at various points in history.
This collection features contributions from the world's leading
Pushkin scholars, examining his life, work, and thought, and
his place in Russian and world literature and culture.
David M. Bethea
is the Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of
Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the
Poet; Khodasevich: His Life and Art; The Shape of Apocalypse
in Modern Russian Fiction; and Joseph Brodsky and the
Creation of Exile, and the editor of Pushkin Today.
For more information contact
our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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Available
February 2006
LC: 2005011162 PG
736 pp. 6 x 9
In English and Russian
ISBN 0-299-19560-0 Cloth $60.00 s
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