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The Mickiewicz subtext in Aleksandr Pushkin’s late poetry

Naumenko, Galina A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299117103

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.
This dissertation explores A. S. Pushkin late poetry, specifically the Kamennoostrovskii Cycle and some other poems (“S Gomerom dolgo ty beseodval odin…” [“You spoke with Homer alone for a long time”] and “Strannik” [“The Wanderer”]), all of them interlinked by what I have termed the Mickiewicz subtext. The standard theory is that the well known dialogue between the Russian and the Polish National Poets ended with Pushkin’s long narrative poem The Bronze Horseman (1833) and his poem “On mezhdu nami zhil” (“He lived among us”, 1834), but, in my view, this is not the case. The dialogue continued, at least from Pushkin’s side. This fact has gone virtually unnoticed in both Mickiewicz and Pushkin scholarship. The hypothesis that Mickiewicz and his long narrative poem entitled Digression (“Ustep”) in Dziady III, which is very critical of Russia, are addressed in Pushkin’s creative work of 1834-1836 offers exciting new interpretative possibilities of the above mentioned texts and possible solutions to some old unresolved issues in Pushkin scholarship. Thus the Mickiewicz subtext helps to clarify the vexed issue of what principle of numbering Pushkin used in the Kamennoostrovskii cycle and to include the poem “Ia pamiatnik sebe vozdvig nerukotvornyi…” [“I have erected a monument to myself”] in it. Several other issues debated for a long time receive highly plausible solutions when the Mickiewicz subtext is considered.
Irene Masing-Delic (Advisor)
Angela Brintlinger (Committee Member)
Alexander Burry (Committee Member)
369 p.
Literature
Pushkin; Stone Island Cycle; Wanderer; You spoke with Homer alone; Mickiewicz subtext; Dziady

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  • Naumenko, G. A. (2011). The Mickiewicz subtext in Aleksandr Pushkin’s late poetry [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299117103

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Naumenko, Galina. The Mickiewicz subtext in Aleksandr Pushkin’s late poetry . 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299117103.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Naumenko, Galina. "The Mickiewicz subtext in Aleksandr Pushkin’s late poetry ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299117103

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