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Subject(s)

• T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina 1892-1941—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875-1926—Influence [Browse]
• Children in literature [Browse]
• Autobiography in literature [Browse]

Series

• Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in Russian literature 35. [More in this series]
• Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in Russian literature, 0346-8496 ; 35 [More in this series]

Summary note

• "This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva's work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet's prose in general. The present study examines Marina Tsvetaeva's memories of childhood in the context of her work and in the context of the cultural and political reality to which these reminiscences refer and in which they were written - i.e., Russia around the turn of the century and the Russian emigre world of 1930-1937. The study also touches upon the symbolic and allegorical dimension of the texts - Tsvetaeva's ""otherspeak"" in her prose. It is shown that the central scenes of these texts author's narrative of childhood also appears to have been a suitable medium for articulating controversial aesthetic statements and taking a stand for a historical.
• Past and literary tradition that at the time seemed doomed to oblivion."

Dissertation note

Thesis (doctoral)--Stockholms universitet, 2004.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-184).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

English, with quotations in Russian.

Contents

• 1. child and childhood in Tsvetaeva's works
• 2. Russian modernist tales of childhood
• 3. poet's prose
• 4. child in Rilke's footsteps
• 5. Symbolism's children
• 6. extralingual experience
• 7. childhood Pushkin.

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ISBN

9122020586

OCLC

54757289

RCP

H - S

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