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This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry
• Subtitle: Reference, Trauma, and History
• Author: Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781628921878
• ISBN: 1628921870
• ID: 04841040
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 583 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2015

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