{"product_id":"three-metaphors-for-life-derzhavins-late-poetry-hardcover","title":"Three Metaphors for Life: Derzhavin's Late Poetry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTatiana Smoliarova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRonald Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eNancy Workman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, \u003ci\u003eseen\u003c\/i\u003e in the two centuries in which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British service placed on the table before him, the English spinning machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices, such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin's visual environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and politics of Derzhavin's poems written in the early nineteenth century, \u003ci\u003eThree Metaphors for Life\u003c\/i\u003e makes us see this period as a chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity--at once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform, insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTatiana Smoliarova\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53568924025139,"sku":"9781618115737","price":186.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/three-metaphors-for-life-derzhavins-late-poetry-hardcover","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}