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"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight"--
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Psychic trauma in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), History and criticism, Russian poetry, Language poetry, American poetry, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Modern Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Russian poetry, history and criticism, Postmodernism (literature), Poetry, modern, history and criticism, Avant-garde (aesthetics), American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Mental illness in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, European, Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)Places
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The testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry: reference, trauma, and history
2015
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Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History
2014, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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