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How have poets in recent centuries been able to inscribe recognisable and relatively sincere voices despite the wearing of poetic language and reader awareness of sincerity's pitfalls? How are readers able to recognise sincerity at all given the mutability of sincere voices and the unavailability of inner worlds? What do disagreements about the sincerity of texts and authors tell us about competing conceptualisations of sincerity? And how has sincere expression in one particular, illustrative context - Russian poetry - both changed and remained constant? An Indwelling Voice grapples, uniquely, with such questions. In case studies ranging from the late neoclassical period to post-postmodernism, it explores how Russian poets have generated the pragmatic framings and poetic devices that allow them to inscribe sincere voices in their poetry. Engaging Anglo-American and European literature, as well as providing close readings of Russian poetry, An Indwelling Voice helps us understand how poets have at times generated a powerful sense of presence, intimating that they speak through the poem.

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"""An intriguing study of sincerity as a capacious, shape-shifting device that creates ever new forms of intimacy with readers. The case studies range from the eighteenth century to the present and from the canonical to the exceptional. Perhaps most unexpected is the way that sincerity can mesh with irony and humour."" --Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ""In this fascinating and innovative study of poetic sincerity, Stuart Goldberg expertly guides the reader through major Russian poems and poets from the eighteenth century to our time. Throughout, his focus is on the way poets create a voice that is resonantly sincere and why sincerity generates so many conflicting opinions. This is an insightful and thought-provoking book that enriches our comprehension of poetry and challenges our preconceptions."" --Michael Wachtel, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University"

"""An intriguing study of sincerity as a capacious, shape-shifting device that creates ever new forms of intimacy with readers. The case studies range from the eighteenth century to the present and from the canonical to the exceptional. Perhaps most unexpected is the way that sincerity can mesh with irony and humour."" - Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ""In this fascinating and innovative study of poetic sincerity, Stuart Goldberg expertly guides the reader through major Russian poems and poets from the eighteenth century to our time. Throughout, his focus is on the way poets create a voice that is resonantly sincere and why sincerity generates so many conflicting opinions. This is an insightful and thought-provoking book that enriches our comprehension of poetry and challenges our preconceptions."" - Michael Wachtel, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University"

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Stuart Goldberg is an associate professor of Russian at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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