Overview

Olga Sedakova stands out among contemporary Russian poets for the integrity, erudition, intellectual force, and moral courage of her writing. After years of flourishing quietly in the late Soviet underground, she has increasingly brought her considered voice into public debates to speak out for freedom of belief and for those who have been treated unjustly. This volume, the first collection of scholarly essays to treat her work in English, assesses her contributions as a poet and as a thinker, presenting far-reaching accounts of broad themes and patterns of thought across her writings as well as close readings of individual texts. Essayists from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, and the United States show how Sedakova has contributed to ongoing aesthetic and cultural debates. Like Sedakova's own work, the volume affirms the capacity of words to convey meaning and to change our understanding of life itself. The volume also includes dozens of elegant new translations of Sedakova's poems.

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Author:   Stephanie Sandler ,  Maria Khotimsky ,  Margarita Krimmel ,  Oleg Novikov
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9780299320102

ISBN 10:   0299320103
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration and Sources Introduction Stephanie Sandler Ways of Seeing the Poet and Her Poems If This Is Not a Garden: Olga Sedakova and the Unfinished Work of Creation Benjamin Paloff The Poet and Darkness: The Politics of Artistic Form Ksenia Golubovich (translated from Russian by Philip Redko) Childhood and Vibrant Stasis in Olga Sedakova’s Poetry Emily R. Grosholz The Guest at the Door: The Poetry of Olga Sedakova Aleksandr Kutyrkin (translated from Russian by Bethany Braley) Constricted Freedom: On Dreams and Rhythms in the Poetry of Olga Sedakova Stephanie Sandler Theology, Philosophy, and Modes of Knowing Sedakova’s Book of Hours and the Devotional Lyric: Reading “Fifth Stanzas” Andrew Kahn The Art of Change: Adaptation and the Apophatic Tradition in Sedakova’s Chinese Journey Martha M. F. Kelly Disruption of Disruption: The Orthodox Christian Impulse in the Works of Nikolai Zabolotsky and Olga Sedakova Sarah Pratt The Topography of the Other World in Olga Sedakova’s Poetics Ketevan Megrelishvili (translated from Russian by Maria Vassileva) The Immanence of Transcendence: Poetic Reflections on the Mystical Aspects of Olga Sedakova’s Lyric Poetry Henrieke Stahl (translated from German by Philipp Penka) Contextual Readings: Languages, Cultures, Sources Stylized Folklore as a Recollection of Europe: Olga Sedakova’s Old Songs and Alexander Pushkin’s Songs of the Western Slavs Ilya Kukulin (translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse) The Poetic Anthropology of Olga Sedakova: In Dialogue with Sergei Averintsev and Boris Pasternak Vera Pozzi (translated from Italian by Gabriella A. Ferrari) The Semantic Vertical: Church Slavonic Heritage and Olga Sedakova’s Poetics of Translation Maria Khotimsky Olga Sedakova’s Journey through The Book of Changes Natalia Chernysh (translated from Russian by Sarah Vitali) Afterword On Olga Sedakova and Poetic Thinking David Bethea Chronology Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

A comprehensive overview of Olga Sedakova's poetry and thought that will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this poet and, more broadly, in contemporary Russian culture. - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

A comprehensive overview of Olga Sedakova's poetry and thought that will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this poet and, more broadly, in contemporary Russian culture. --Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

Author Information

Stephanie Sandler is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Slavic Department at Harvard University. Maria Khotimsky is a senior lecturer and the coordinator of the Russian-language program at MIT. Margarita Krimmel has worked as principal editor for the website olgasedakova.com and on numerous books by Olga Sedakova. Oleg Novikov is a cofounder of the Foundation for Research in Logic and Philosophy in Moscow.

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