Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life--in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning. Poetry during the Golden Age was not a one-way avenue from author to reader. Rather, it was participatory, interactive, and performative.
Lyric Complicity helps modern readers recover Russian poetry's former uses and functions--life situations that moved people to quote or perform a specific passage from a poem or a forgotten occasion that created unforgettable verse.

Author: Daria Khitrova
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/08/2021
Series: Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780299322144