Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991 (Paperback, New ed)

CONTENTS: Katharine Hodgson: The Appeal of Empire and the Attempt to Propose a New Nationalist Canon ? Katharine Hodgson: The Canon of War Poetry and Commemoration, 1995?2010 ? Katharine Hodgson: Village Poetry: Reinventing a Lost World ? Alexandra Smith: Russian Gulag Poetry and its Reception: Marginalizing National Trauma ? Alexandra Smith: Rediscovering the Religious and Elegiac Roots of Russian Lyric Poetry: Soviet Underground Poets as Anna Akhmatova’s Heirs ? Alexandra Smith: The Pushkin Myth in New Contexts: Post-Soviet Rewriting of the Tradition ? Alexandra Smith: Post-Soviet Parody, Ironic Musings, and a New Poetic Canon ? Alexandra Smith/Katharine Hodgson: Conclusion: Russian National Identity between Triumphant and Traumatic Memory.