New book on Pushkin's "Poltava"

[David Powelstock]

Dear Colleagues,

I submit the following announcement on behalf of a friend to help publicize
the publication of a new book on Pushkin's "Poltava." If you have further
questions, please contact the publisher, whose website is given below.

Best wishes,

David Powelstock

 

Pushkin's "Poltava" 
A Literary Structuralist Interpretation 
By Virginia M. Burns Edited by Katya Burns 

Virginia M. Burns' forthcoming monograph sheds new analytical light on one
of Alexandr Pushkin's least understood works: "Poltava." Her book challenges
the prevailing interpretation of the poem as structurally defective and
substantively simplistic. Instead, Burns combines the analytical devices of
characterization, narrative structure, and poetic structure to offer a new
interpretation. Her analysis shows that past analyses of "Poltava" have
failed to grasp the innovative organization which binds Pushkin's poem
together into a structural whole. Her analysis also raises serious questions
about past historical interpretations of "Poltava" which focus on Russian
nationalism: Burns questions the catagorical condemnation of the Ukrainian
rebellion against Peter the Great which most analyses of "Poltava" embrace.
In this way Burns' book offers a new appreciation of Pushkin's genius. 

Contents: Foreword I; Foreword II; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I.
Background; Introduction: The Problem of "Poltava"; Past Critical Views of
"Poltava"; Part II. Literary Analysis and Interpretation; Introduction;
Characterization: Mazepa; Maria; Kochubey, Karl and Peter; Historical
Events; Narrative Structure; Poetic Structure; Conclusion: Theory of
History; Appendix I. Chart of Stanzas; Appendix II. Translations: English
Translations; Russian Translations; Bibliography; Index; The Author and the
Editor 

Virginia M. Burns was former Fellow of the Center for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Toronto (deceased). 
 

272 pages // ISBN 0-7618-2729-3  // Paper, University Press of
America-www.univpress.com and/or
http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search
<http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5eDB/C
ATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761827293> &db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761827293
(direct link to book description & table of contents)

 


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