Velimir Khlebnikov: A Critical Study

di Raymond Cooke (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1987

Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery. This book provides a broad survey of his work. Dr Cooke's aim is to be both informative and interpretative by mapping out the contours of Khlebnikov's still largely uncharted poetic world. He highlights the complex relations between the poet and his public, draws attention to Khlebnikov's preoccupation with the meaning as well as the poetry of language, points to the significance of images of war and conflict in his work, and shows how the figure of the poet-warrior can metamorphose into the poet-prophet. There is also an examination of the vexed problem of Khlebnikov's attitudes towards his manuscripts and his concept of the book.

• Autore: Raymond Cooke
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Anno: 1987
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 442 gr.
• EAN: 9780521326704

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