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The Superstitious Muse

Name: The Superstitious Muse
Author: David Bethea

David Bethea · 2009

204,152 words · about 14 h 18 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Author: David Bethea
Language: English
Published: 2009
Length: 204,152 words · about 14 h 18 min
Sections: 20 reader sections
Source: OAPEN Library (30894)
Text: Digital text
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

Contents (20)

Front matter about 1 min
Contents about 32 min
Chapter 2 The Mythopoetic “Vectors” of 27. Russian Literature* about 2 h 34 min
Chapter 3 Mythopoesis and Biography: 101. Pushkin, Jakobson, and the Secret Life of Statues? about 56 min
Chapter 4 The Evolution of Evolution: Genes, 127. Memes, Intelligent Design, and Nabokov* about 45 min
Chapter 5 Relativity and Reality: Dante, 149. Florensky, Lotman, and Metaphorical Time-Travel* about 32 min
Chapter 6 Whose Mind Is This Anyway? 167 about 33 min
Chapter 7 Of Pushkin and Pushkinists* about 41 min
Introduction about 42 min
Chapter 9 about 1 h 8 min
Chapter 10 DON GUAN: O Dona Anna! about 8 min
Chapter 11 about 34 min
Chapter 12 Slavic Gift-Giving, The Poet in History, and Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter* about 44 min
Chapter 13 Pushkin’s The Histozy of Pugachev: Where Fact Meets the Zero-Degree of Fiction* about 50 min
Chapter 14 Sorrento Photographs: 323. Khodasevich’s Memory Speaks* about 26 min
Chapter 15 Nabokov’s Style* 337 about 21 min
Chapter 16 Sologub, Nabokov, and the Limits of 347. Decadent Aesthetics + about 35 min
Chapter 17 Exile, Elegy, and Auden in Brodsky’s about 42 min
Chapter 18 Joseph Brodsky and the American 384. Seashore Poem: Lowell, Mandelstam and Cape Cod‘ about 19 min
Chapter 19 Joseph Brodsky’s “To My Daughter” 391. (A Reading) * about 1 h 16 min

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The Supezstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Litezatuze Mythopoetically

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History Series Editor: Lazar Fleishman

The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically

Preface: David M. Bethea 9 Introduction: Caryl Emerson (Mythopoetics Meets the Living Person:

How David Bethea Balances the Body and the Muse) 17

I. Part One: Russian Literature: Background, Foreground, Creative Cognition

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