Author: Robin AizlewoodPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623227
Category : Russian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir Maiakovskii
Author: Robin AizlewoodPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623227
Category : Russian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Author: Robin AizlewoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian language
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladmir Mayakovsky
Author: Robin AizlewoodVerse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladmir Mayakovsky
Author: Robin AizlewoodSelected Poems
Author: Vladimir MayakovskyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810166577
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
James McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as “the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch,” Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted—and translated—within a political context. McGavran’s translations reveal a more nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and linguistic manipulation. Mayakovsky’s bombastic metaphors and formal élan shine through in these translations, and McGavran’s commentary provides vital information on Mayakovsky, illuminating the poet’s many references to the Russian literary canon, his contemporaries in art and culture, and Soviet figures and policies.
Pro Eto - That's What
Author: Vladimir MayakovskyPublisher: ARC Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his creative fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of 'poet's poet', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, Pasternak among them). His poetry, influenced by Whitman and Verhaeren and strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its erotic thrust, bluesy complaints and cries of pain, not to mention its sardonic humour, is at once aggressive, mocking and tender, and often fantastic or grotesque. Pro Eto - That's What is a long love poem detailing the pain and suffering inflicted on the poet by his lover and her final rejection of him. But as well as being an agonising parable of separation and betrayal, it is also a political work, highly critical of Lenin's reforms of Soviet Socialism. The publication of That's What is something of a landmark for not only is this the first time that this seminal work has appeared in its entirety in translation, but it is illustrated with the 11 inspired photomontages that Alexander Rodchenko designed to interleave and illuminate the text, illustrations which inaugurate a world of new possibilities in combining verbal and visual forms of expression and which are reproduced in colour (as originally conceived) for the first time.
How to Make Verse
Author: Vladimir MayakovskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Other Poems
Author: Vladimir MayakovskyPublisher: Fyfieldbooks
ISBN: 9781784102920
Category : Russian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Vladimir Mayakovsky' & Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky's pre-Revolutionary surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New translations of key works are included alongside several poems that have never been translated into English before, while an introduction and notes provide helpful contexts and elucidations. Screenplays, dramatic scripts and advertising slogans give a sense of the unusual breadth and invention of Mayakovsky's project, and his skill both as poet and propagandist. 'A poet needs to be good at life as well', he writes; his job is to 'smooth brains with the file of his tongue'. Womack's translations help to revise the predominant image of Mayakovsky as a hectoring egoist, offering a more nuanced impression of a poet whose concern was as much comradeship and intimacy as politics and posterity: 'all of this - do you want it? - I will abandon for one single tender human word.' -- from back cover.
How are Verses Made?
Author: Vladimir MayakovskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Author: Neil CornwellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134260776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.