Alexander Pushkin: A Critical StudyA clear, detailed and accessible account of all Pushkin's poetry |
Contents
The Problem of Pushkin | 17 |
Entertainment Illusion and Paradox | 19 |
Pushkinolatry | 22 |
The Problem of the Lyric Poetry | 23 |
An Approach to Pushkin Through One Poem | 27 |
How to Execute the Alexandrine | 30 |
A Parade of Poetic Skills | 33 |
Country Life and its Distractions | 37 |
Storypoems in the Popular Tradition | 135 |
The Kingdom of Thricenine | 141 |
Balladry | 147 |
The Limited Success of Pushkins Drama | 157 |
Shaking off Shakespeare | 160 |
The Fiveact Structure | 164 |
Unifying Crossreferences | 169 |
Characters Language and Poetry | 174 |
A Sexual Encounter | 41 |
The Spirit of Play | 42 |
The Shorter Poems | 44 |
A Catalogue of Lovers | 54 |
The Isolation of the Poet | 68 |
The Poet of Freedom | 76 |
Events in the Life of a Poet | 83 |
Nine Narrative Poems | 91 |
Compression and Diversity | 92 |
The False Start | 95 |
Four Southern Poems | 99 |
The Supremacy of Count Nulin | 102 |
Limited Achievement in the Later Narratives | 108 |
Towards Fulfilment | 116 |
The Bronze Horseman | 117 |
Sources of Inspiration | 118 |
The Story | 119 |
A Multiplicity of Themes | 120 |
Similes and Sounds | 124 |
Resourceful Rhyming | 125 |
Structural Crossreferences | 130 |
The Overall Achievement | 133 |
High Praise for the Little Tragedies | 177 |
Pushkins Weakest Masterpiece | 178 |
Ideas Incarnate | 181 |
Abstracting the Poetry | 182 |
Yevgeniy Onegin | 187 |
A Phenomenon of Style | 190 |
The Onegin Stanza | 191 |
The Technical Skills of a Novelistpoet | 196 |
Lucent Sorrow | 204 |
Prose | 213 |
The Linguistic and Literaryhistorical Achievement | 214 |
Infectious Hyperbole | 216 |
Parody and Beyond | 218 |
Misapplied Brevity | 224 |
Reading Pushkin | 228 |
A Learners Guide to Pushkin | 231 |
The Final Question | 234 |
Notes | 240 |
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