Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony - Paperback
Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony - Paperback
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by Monika Greenleaf (Author)
This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name.
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This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution.--William Mills Todd III, Harvard University
"Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's."--Choice
