David M Bethea
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Bethea |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bethea |
| SIGNATURE | BETHEA D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Classic Private University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 38 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Superstitious Muse
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of “erasure” and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art…
Whose Mind Is This Anyway
Sologub, Nabokov, and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics
A Protean Look at the Russian Proteus
Loose Ends in ‘On the Talks in Kabul’
Realizing Metaphors
Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely sculpt…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
Russia is a dominant force in the world, whose culture has been shaped by its unique position on the margins of both East and West. As Russia faces new cultural challenges from outside its national boundaries, this volume introduces Russian culture in all its rich diversity, including the historical conditions that helped shape it and the arts that express its highest achievements. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars explore language, r…
"Bakhtinian Prosaics versus Lotmanian "Poetic Thinking
Abolishing Death
Pushkin Today
Russian Poetry and Criticism in Paris from 1920 to 1940
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or …
Remembrance and Invention
oetry and memory: the expanse covered in modern Russian history by these two terms is vast indeed. The three articles collected beneath this rubric in the present issue of The Russian Review may serve us, though, as a kind of shorthand guide to the extensive territory that poetic memory has been called upon to span in the Russian literature and culture of this century-from the recuperation of ancient myths by modern poet-dramatists in Silver Age …
Joseph Brodsky as Russian Metaphysical
Peterburgskij period Georgija Ivanova
Joseph Brodsky
A Stepson of the Empire: 1. The generation of 1956 2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch 3. The northern exile 4. A change of empires Part II. Longing for World Culture: 5. In defence of culture 6. A modern descendant of classicism 7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden Part III. The Mask of Metaphor: 8. A web of metaphors 9. Similarity in disparity 10. Ars est celare artem 11. A form of identity of two versions Part IV. Word…
Osip Mandelstam
The Later Poetry of Osip Mandelstam
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the end of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable pap…
New Mecca, New Babylon
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
Literaturnaja zizn' russkogo Pariza za polveka (1924-1974)
"Zolotoe Runo" and Russian Modernism
Emigration and Heritage
Boris Pasternak v tridtsatye gody
Boris Pasternak v tridtsatye gody
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the end of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable pap…
History As Hippodrome
With the possible exception of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, no other Russian novel published in recent memory has received more critical attention than Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. This is as it should be, for no other work of imaginative prose written in post-revolutionary Russia (and especially in the Stalinist thirties) has come to raise and to satisfy so many hermeneutical expectations. Yet its essence remains indeterminate; tied to bo…
Sologub, Nabokov, and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics
Sorrento Photographs
The Russian poet Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), who spent the last seventeen years of his life in Western Europe, wrote a total of five books of verse: the first two, Molodost (Youth, 1908) and Shchastlivyi domik (The Happy Little House, 1914), are largely derivative and, by the poet's own admission, immature; the last three, Putem zerna (Grain's Way, 1920), Tiashelaia lira (The Heavy Lyre, 1922), and Evropeiskaia noch' (European Night, 1927)…
Following in Orpheus' Footsteps
History As Hippodrome
With the possible exception of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, no other Russian novel published in recent memory has received more critical attention than Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. This is as it should be, for no other work of imaginative prose written in post-revolutionary Russia (and especially in the Stalinist thirties) has come to raise and to satisfy so many hermeneutical expectations. Yet its essence remains indeterminate; tied to bo…
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Izbrannaia proza
Russkii Berlin, 1921-1923. Po materialam arkhiva B. I. Nikolaevskogo v Guverovskom institute
Khodasevich
This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the life and art of a literary figure described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.…
The Other Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
The [Hi]story of the Village Gorjuxino
Sergei Esenin i krest'ianskaia Rossiia
Ivan Bunin and the Time of Troubles in Russian Émigré Literature
I will certainly stipulate in my will that my letters never be published."Ivan BuninThe phenomenon called the "First Wave" of Russian emigre literature made its appearance in the West under unique circumstances. Disoriented and defensive, this distinguished group of cultural and literary figures had to start over, straight from the throes of the October Revolution. Émigré literature never became a "movement" in the way Symbolism was. It had too m…
Russian Imagism
Emigration and Heritage
Boris Pasternak v tridtsatye gody
New Mecca, New Babylon
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
Literaturnaja zizn' russkogo Pariza za polveka (1924-1974)
"Zolotoe Runo" and Russian Modernism
Osip Mandelstam
The Later Poetry of Osip Mandelstam
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the end of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable pap…
Joseph Brodsky
A Stepson of the Empire: 1. The generation of 1956 2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch 3. The northern exile 4. A change of empires Part II. Longing for World Culture: 5. In defence of culture 6. A modern descendant of classicism 7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden Part III. The Mask of Metaphor: 8. A web of metaphors 9. Similarity in disparity 10. Ars est celare artem 11. A form of identity of two versions Part IV. Word…
Peterburgskij period Georgija Ivanova
Joseph Brodsky as Russian Metaphysical
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