Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture

Molly Thomasy Blasing

Published by Cornell University Press 2022

Snapshots of the Soul

Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture

Molly Thomasy Blasing

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501753718

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About this book

Snapshots of the Soul reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to "writing the photographis the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.

Author information

Molly Thomasy Blasing is Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Kentucky. Follow her on Twitter @mtblasing.

Reviews

Jenifer Presto, University of Oregon, author of Beyond the Flesh:

"Snapshots of the Soul is a prodigiously researched and elegantly argued monograph that makes a compelling case for a Russian photo-poetics. Moving deftly between poems and photographs by Russia's leading twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets, Molly T. Blasing convincingly demonstrates that the encounter between poetry and photography was central to Russian literary culture."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Permissions Notes Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Note on Transliteration and Translation Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Prologue: A Century of Photo-Poetic Encounters Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction. Poetry and Photography: Encounters, Connections, and Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak’s Poetics of Photography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
3. Framing Memory: Brodsky and Photographic Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina’s Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Coda. Digital Denied: Poetry and Photography after 1999 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 61
- Images: 61
- Other: 61 b&w halftones
Keywords: Poetry and photography; 20th Century Russian poetry; Marina Tsvetaeva; BorisPasternak; Joseph Brodsky; Bella Akhmadulina

eBook

Published: July 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781501753718