The
Pushkin Handbook
Edited by David M. Bethea
Publications of the Wisconsin
Center for Pushkin Studies
David M. Bethea, Series Editor
"There is no . . . book that would be more useful to any scholar or student interested in Pushkin.”
—Igor Nemirovsky, The Russian Review
The Pushkin Handbook, a collection of new studies by leading
Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America,
and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices
engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue.
Contributors to the volume consider Pushkin in terms of his biography;
his innovations in the forms of lyric, narrative poem, novel
in verse, drama, and fictional prose; his thoughts on history,
politics, and literature; the textual challenges of his work;
and the problems of translating it. Another major focus is Pushkin's
place in the literary and cultural cosmos: his relationship to
his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, his responses to
other European literature, his role within the traditions of
Romanticism and Realism, and his reception and interpretation
by readers at various points in history.
This collection features contributions from the world's leading
Pushkin scholars, examining his life, work, and thought, and
his place in Russian and world literature and culture.
"This ambitious companion to Russia's greatest poet is
not a dictionary, not an anthology, but a monument that unfolds
like a living museum of fragile contexts easily lost: the life,
the texts, the contexts, the cultural resonances. In this landmark
bilingual project, Russian and American scholars come together
over the ever-expanding miracle of Alexander Pushkin, whose voice
once again transcends all regimes and methodologies." —Caryl
Emerson, Princeton University
“The brilliance of The Pushkin Handbook is that it brings together some of the best Pushkinists from both continents under one cover, juxtaposing approaches, ideas, and even languages.” —Angela Brintlinger, Canadian Slavonic Papers
 David M. Bethea is the Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Superstitious Muse, Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet,and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile as well as the editor of Pushkin Today.
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
December 2013
LC: 2005011162 PG
708 pp. 6 x 9
In English and Russian
“The collection is indeed wide-ranging, with a group of articles on the history of Pushkin scholarship, his biography, textology, and his manuscripts and a group on form, including one each on poetic form, lyric, the narrative poem, drama, prose, and fictive vs. non-fictive prose.”
—Katya Hokanson, Slavic and European Journal
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