The excellent new volume, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon, analyzes the transformation of the poetic canon, its idea and content, since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It presents a comprehensive and intricate overview of the canon formation and deformation from a variety of perspectives: sociological, political, historical, and literary. The volume succeeds in this project and greatly enhances our understanding of the history of Russian poetry from the end of the twentieth century until today...No scholar of Russian poetry and culture should bypass it.
Marat Grinberg
"Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon. Ed. Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton, and Alexandra Smith". Slavic Review (0037-6779), vol. 77, no. 4, 2018. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.352
1. Introduction: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry and the Post-Soviet Reader: Reinventing the Canon
By Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith
2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Iosif Brodskii and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Canon in the Post-Soviet Period
By Aaron Hodgson
3. ‘Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias’: Canon, Canonisation, and Cult
By Alexandra Harrington
4. Vladimir Maiakovskii and the National School Curriculum
By Natalia Karakulina
5. The Symbol of the Symbolists: Aleksandr Blok in the Changing Russian Literary Canon
By Olga Sobolev
6. Canonical Mandel′shtam
By Andrew Kahn
7. Revising the Twentieth-Century Poetic Canon: Ivan Bunin in Post-Soviet Russia
By Joanne Shelton
8. From Underground to Mainstream: The Case of Elena Shvarts
By Josephine von Zitzewitz
9. Boris Slutskii: A Poet, his Time, and the Canon
By Katharine Hodgson
10. The Diasporic Canon of Russian Poetry: The Case of the Paris Note
By Maria Rubins
11. The Thaw Generation Poets in the Post-Soviet Period
By Emily Lygo
12. The Post-Soviet Homecoming of First-Wave Russian Émigré Poets and its Impact on the Reinvention of the Past
By Alexandra Smith
13. Creating the Canon of the Present
By Stephanie Sandler
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