Sophia Parnok and the Writing of a Lesbian Poet's Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5041192 |
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| Authors | Diana Lewis Burgin |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 214-231 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2499528 |
| OpenAlex | W2313635961 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In a footnote to her detailed commentary on the poems of Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) Sophia Poliakova states that the poet "did not make a secret of" her lesbianism and that "many of her poems are incomprehensible without knowledge of this [...] extremely personal [fact]." Yet, in her otherwise excellent discussion of the poet's creative development, Poliakova does not treat the crucially important relationship between Parnok's affectional preference and her creativity which, in my opinion, played a central role in the refining of what the poet referred to as a "voice like mine." Parnok's lesbian orientation was also partially responsible for the problems she encountered with Soviet censorship that effectively muffled her voice
Aesthetics · Art · Censorship · Creativity · Lesbian · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Preference · Psychoanalysis · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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