Snapshots of the Soul : : Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture / / Molly Thomasy Blasing.

Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped poetry in Russian from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly T. Blasing offers close readings of poems by...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 61 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions Notes
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Prologue: A Century of Photo-Poetic Encounters
  • Introduction. Poetry and Photography: Encounters, Connections, and Change
  • 1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak’s Poetics of Photography
  • 2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics
  • 3. Framing Memory: Brodsky and Photographic Time
  • 4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina’s Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots
  • 5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious
  • Coda. Digital Denied: Poetry and Photography after 1999
  • Notes
  • Index