Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

those who could be described as poetessy—addressed themselves pri- marily to women. Perhaps they assumed men would not be intere ...

Guber’s “Ia po komnate khozhu” (I pace the room, 1845 ) an apparently poor speaker condemns a rich nobleman for seducing and aba ...

male nature figure, drowns.^35 In “Tsygany” (The gypsies, 1824 ) the free- spirited gypsy heroine Zemfira is identified with nat ...

jects of male sexual fantasies. In “Bessonitsa” (Insomnia, 1831 ), spring breathes its sweet breath on the poet’s face and breas ...

not linguistically, and she is as destructive as she is creative.... [E]nor- mous as her powers are, they are not the ones that ...

igrannyi v Uiutnom 8 iul’ 1835 v den’ rozhdeniia M. M. Bakunina” [Pro- logue performed at Uiutnyi on July 8 , 1835 on M. M. Baku ...

contemporary American woman poet, Emily Dickinson. In her “Appar- ently with no surprise” ( 1884 ), the frost carelessly beheads ...

Others tried to avoid confronting male religious authority by sepa- rating God (male-gendered Bog) from fate (female-gendered su ...

Romantic conventions that offered them no useful models for repre- senting themselves as poets—or in relation to their creativit ...

3 .Gender and Genre The previous two chapters outlined the social conditions that the poets we have been considering faced as wo ...

within the twentieth-century novel, the factory novel, school novel, war novel, crime novel, and so on. For Fowler, then, genre ...

for the critical reception of women poets.^5 What were the most impor- tant Russian Romantic poetic genres? Scholars of both Eur ...

Middle Ages or knights or Gothic buildings, with their gloom and pe- culiar impressions; the Greeks and Romans, sad to say, have ...

similarly described the genre as containing “some important memo- rable, famous event... or... an event [that]... serves the who ...

Rossiada—along with its mock-epic parodies, for example, Vasilii Maikov’s Elisei ili razdrazhennyi Vakkh(Elisei or Bacchus Furio ...

both for authors and for characters. Russian women poets appear to have experienced as much “genre anxiety” in relation to the R ...

declarations of genre—such subtitles did not keep him from thinking of these works as poemy.For example, Baratynsky wrote to N. ...

love object, the krasavitsa geroinia(heroine-beauty), whose essential trait, as her name implies, is her appearance. Like her By ...

rienced,” and ambivalent, to works of great originality and freshness. Even the formless and inexperienced works, however, are w ...

this work. An excerpt appeared in 1844 in the journal Moskvitianinun- der the title “Otryvok iz romana” (Excerpt of a novel), a ...