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Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. 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. Within 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. Snapshots of the Soul 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.

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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 juillet 2021

Nombre de lectures

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9781501753718

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

7 Mo

 SNAPSHOTS OF THE SOUL

SNAPSHOTSOFTHE SOUL PHOTO- POE T I C E NCOUNT E RS I N n MODE RN RUSSI AN CULT URE

M o l ly Th o m a s y B l a s i n g

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESSIthacaandLondon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Blasing, Molly Thomasy, author. Title: Snapshots of the soul : photo-poetic encounters in modern Russianculture / Molly Thomasy Blasing. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Includesbibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020048407 (print) | LCCN 2020048408 (ebook) | ISBN9781501753695 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501753701 (ebook) | ISBN9781501753718 (pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Russian poetry—20th century—History and criticism. |Literature and photography—Russia— History—20th century. | Literatureand photography— Soviet Union—History. | Photography in literature. Classification:LCCPG3065.P46B532021(print)|LCC PG3065.P46 (ebook)| DDC 891.71/409357—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048407 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048408

Cover photo: Aleksandr and Leonid Pasternak self-portrait in a mirror, Volkhonka Street studio, Moscow, c. 1915–21. Image courtesy of the Pasternak Family Archive.

ForKeith,Isaac,andLeo

andinmemoryofRobertM.Ferrante,whosemusiclessonsprovidedmyfirstencounterswithRussianculture

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ListofIllustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxiii PermissionsNotesxv NoteonTransliterationandTranslationxvii Prologue:ACenturyofPhotoPoeticEncounters xix

Introduction.PoetryandPhotography:Encounters, Connections, and Change

1. Illuminating Consciousness: Pasternak’s Poetics of Photography2. Through the Lens of Loss: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics3. Framing Memory: Brodsky and Photographic Time4. Poetic Mothers in the Photo Frame: Akhmadulina’s Lyric Dialogue with Silver Age Snapshots5. Darkroom of Dreams: Poetry, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious

Coda.DigitalDenied:PoetryandPhotography after 1999

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1.1. Leonid and Aleksandr Pasternak, Exhibition of Union of Russian Artists, Moscow, 19111.2. Boris Pasternak, 19501.3. Boris Pasternak, 19501.4. Boris, Evgeniia and Evgenii Pasternak, Moscow, 19241.5. Aleksandr and Boris Pasternak, Moscow, 18981.6. The horse in motion, Palo Alto track, 18781.7. Leonid Pasternak with his children, Raiki Mansion, 19071.8. Photograph from Bear Lakes, 19071.9. Photograph from Bear Lakes, 19071.10. Leonid Pasternak and Boris Zbarskii, Moscow, 19171.11. Boris Pasternak at the piano, Vsevolodo-Vil′va, 19161.12. Boris Pasternak, Vsevolodo-Vil′va, 19161.13. Aleksandr and Leonid Pasternak self-portrait in a mirror, Moscow, c. 1915–211.14. Elena A. Vinograd, 19171.15. Elena A. Vinograd, 19172.1. Anastasiia Tsvetaeva, Sergei Efron, Marina Tsvetaeva, with a portrait of M. L. (Bernatskaia) Mein, Moscow, 19112.2. Photograph of Marina Tsvetaeva taken at Petr Shumov’s studio, Paris, 19262.3. Rainer Maria Rilke, Muzot, Switzerland, 19262.4. “Le Potager” (The Vegetable Patch), Rainer Maria Rilke, Muzot, Switzerland, 19262.5. The Prague Knight statue, 20132.6. Front page of the January 12, 1934 edition ofPoslednienovosti, announcing A. Belyi’s death2.7. Close-up of the photograph of Andrei Belyi,Poslednienovosti, January 12, 1934, 1

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