Volume | Slavica Helsingiensia 23 (PDF) |
Author | Maija Könönen |
Title | “Four Ways of Writing the City”: St. Petersburg-Leningrad as a Metaphor in the poetry of Joseph Brodsky” |
Description | The present study discusses the theme of St. Petersburg-Leningrad in Joseph Brodsky’s verse works. The chosen approach to the evolving im-age of the city in Brodsky’s poetry is through four metaphors: St. Peters-burg as “the common place” of the Petersburg Text, St. Petersburg as “Paradise and/or Hell”, St. Petersburg as “a Utopian City” and St. Peters-burg as “a Void”. This examination of the city-image focusses on the aspects of space and time as basic categories underlying the poet’s poetic world view. |
Reviewed in | Russkij zhurnal 18.8.2003 (http://www.russ.ru/krug/kniga/20030818_akhapkin.html) “Laji, tekijä, instituutio”. Kirjallisuudentutkijain seuran vuosikirja 56. Toim. T. Lahdelma, R. Niemi-Pynttäri, O. Oja, K. Virtanen. Helsinki: SKS, 2003, pp 285–288. |
ISBN | 952-10-0997-2 (PDF version: 952-10-0978-0) |
ISSN | 0780-3281 |
Pages | 340 |
Published | Helsinki 2003 |
Availability | Book available |
Price | EUR 26 |