Collected Works in Six Volumes. Volume 3. Russian Poetry
The first posthumous collection of M.L. Gasparov's works (in six volumes) aims to convey as fully as possible the multifaceted nature of his scientific interests and to present the main directions of his work. In all of Gasparov's works there is a rigor nurtured by the tradition of classical philology, the precision necessary for a poet, and the courage to address the most diverse areas of science. Gasparov's articles and monographs on Russian poetry are based on the vast material of his long-established and classic verse studies. The works collected in this volume include historical overviews of various stages of Russian poetry, characterizations and biographical notes on famous and forgotten poets, interpretations and analyses of individual poems, examples of innovative commentary on the lyrics of O. Mandelstam and B. Gasparov. Mandelstam and B. Pasternak. The monograph "Meter and Meaning", which opens the volume, is devoted to the relationship between poetic meter and content, a phenomenon that has been called the semantics of meter or the semantic halo of meter. In this book on a huge material of Russian poetic texts of XIX-XX centuries the work of this most important component of poetic language is shown, the laws of literary tradition and the evolution of the poetic system are demonstrated. The book "Meter and Meaning" made a new step in the development of the science of verse and verse, as the scientist himself labeled the sections of his research. Some of the works in the volume are extracted from small editions and have been difficult to access for most readers until now. M.L. Gasparov's works on Russian poetry, for all their genre diversity, form a coherent, systematic and comprehensive picture thanks to the unity of thought and style of this outstanding Russian philologist of the second half of the twentieth century.
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