Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender and divination in Russia from 1765

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture 3. Readers and detractors 4. Printers and publishers 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele 7. Sages and prophets 8. Disappearance and revival Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

Whose foreign is foreign? Form and norms of translation of contemporary Russian poetry into English

ABSTRACT Discussions of poetry translation from Russian into English often touch on issues related to the concepts of domestication and foreignization. This article considers issues of poetic form, especially rhyme and metrical patterning, as a domestic or foreign element in anglophone poetry itself and as an important aspect of poetic translation from Russian into English. The article analyzes four individual translations from the point of view of their treatment of formal elements and finds a shift toward greater metrical and rhyming equivalence in more recent translation work. Examples include poems by Innokenty Annensky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Olga Sedakova, Polina Barskova and Joseph Brodsky.

Rhetoric, Translation, And The Rhetoric Of Translation

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Russian Village Magic in the Late Soviet Period: One Woman's Repertoire of Zagovory

This article gives a succinct introduction to the Russian verbal folk genre of the zagovor (spell, charm, or hex) and provides a set of seventeen zagovory given to the author’s informant in the early 1980s by an elderly village woman, accompanied by translations into English. The zagovor is at the heart of Russian folk healing, though it was suppressed in the Soviet period. This individual repertoire reflects the sources and uses of folk healing in the Soviet period and beyond.

Sons, Lovers And The Laius Complex In Russian Modernist Poetry

Psychosocial tensions between authors of different generations have occupied a significant part of literary scholarship for the past hundred years. The Russian formalists made the evolution of literary status through generational turnover an explicit scholarly concern; Harold Blooms Anxiety of Influence is a profoundly influential application of similar ideas to the Anglo-American poetic tradition.1 Recent feminist criticism addresses the roles of gender in describing poetic creativity and relationships, but also the economy of discourse in which common narratives of romantic or family relationships become overdetermining ways to imagine the interactions among writers, texts, and traditions.2 The following two articles byJenifer Presto and Stuart Goldberg engage these bodies of scholarship. Offering specific textual evidence and close reading, they also address the whole complex of Russian literature and culture, with implications for the way we as readers choose or inherit approaches and interpretations. The distinction between filiation and affiliation arose productively in scholarship on modernist authors, though traditional use in manuscript studies of the term filiation (to refer to ancestry in textual transmission) set a precedent for the idea that textual bodies generate textual offspring. Edward Said offers an influential formulation of the modernist rejection of filiation, cited by Presto and used to good effect by scholars such as David Bethea (on Joseph Brodsky) and Clare Cavanagh (on Osip Mandelshtam). Emmanual Levinas, on the other hand, reads filiation through eros as an enlightening and powerful source of relationship with the fu-

Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva

The essays in this collection deal with a number of issues, including the experience of poetic inspiration, the poets relation to the contemporary age, how some poets develop and others remain the same, and an examination of the different poetical approaches of Pasternak and Mayakovsky.