Author: Virginia Marie Burns
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780761827290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In Pushkin's "Poltava" Virginia M. Burns provides a detailed, literary-structuralist analysis of Aleksandr Pushkin's narrative poem. By examining prior critical approaches to, and interpretations of, her subject, Burns challenges many traditionally accepted views of the poem - such as categorical condemnation of the rebellion of the Ukraine against the Russia of Peter the Great. In turn, and through studies of characterization and narrative and poetic techniques. Burns provides a new interpretation of the "Poltava" in which the poem's meaning may be derived primarily from the unique and unifying organization of its structure." --Book Jacket.
Author: Светлана Евдокимова
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300070231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history - writings that have strongly influenced Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings of his drama Boris Godunov; such narrative poems as Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The Captain's Daughter and The Blackamoor of Peter the Great; lyrical poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but also as an original historical and political thinker.
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-08-25
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781726194136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poltava is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1828-9 about the involvement of the Ukrainian Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa in the 1709 Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia. The poem intertwines a love plot between Mazepa and Maria with an account of Mazepa's betrayal of Tsar Peter I and Peter's victory in battle. Although often considered one of Pushkin's lesser works and critiqued as unabashedly imperialistic, a number of critics have praised the poem for its depth of characterization and its ability to synthesize disparate genres. The poem inspired Tchaikovsky's 1884 opera Mazeppa.
Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9785883690449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dmitrij Tschižewskij
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780826511881
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