Author : Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501322664
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry by : Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Download or read book The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry written by Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.