Slavic 287: Poetic Creation in Twentieth-Century Russia

A course that examines how poems create self-images for poets working in and after Russian modernism, including Khlebnikov, Vvedenskii, Mandel'shtam, Tsvetaeva, Barkova, Brodsky, Sedakova, Shvarts, Dragomoshchenko. Relies on literary and psychoanalytic theories of identity.