{"product_id":"snapshots-of-the-soul-photo-poetic-encounters-in-modern-russian-culture-hardback-9781501753695","title":"Snapshots of the Soul; Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Hardback) 9781501753695","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSnapshots of the Soul\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhoto-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMolly Thomasy Blasing (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501753695\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 61 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 61 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes a bountiful selection of photographs closely related to the text. Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eBlasing's work demonstrates an amazing knowledge of an array of archival evidence, from photographs to literary manuscripts, spread across the United States, Europe, and the Russian Federation.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Russian Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003econsiders how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day.\u003c\/b\u003e Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. \u003ci\u003eSnapshots of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to \"writing the photograph\" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOpen Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Poetry and Photography: Encounters, Connections, and Change\u003cbr\u003e 1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak's Poetics of Photography\u003cbr\u003e 2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva's Elegiac Photo-Poetics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Framing Memory: Brodskyand Photographic Time\u003cbr\u003e 4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina's Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots\u003cbr\u003e 5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Digital Denied: Poetry and Photography after 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702466933016,"sku":"9781501753695","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/snapshots-of-the-soul-photo-poetic-encounters-in-modern-russian-culture-hardback-9781501753695","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}