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Article published in «Toronto Slavic Quaterly» — 2010 — No33 (Summer) — pp. 166-213 Some day an outside observer, say a Martian terrapaleophilologist with a statistical bent, might well decide that in the second half of the twentieth century the word „poetry” meant two diferent things in Russia and in the West. Russian earthlings continued the usage of their seventeenthto nineteenthcentury ancestors and applied the term to a body of texts organized by specifc constraints, such as the patterned distribution of syllables and stresses and phonic similarities between line endings; Westerners (Americans in particular) diverged from the usage of their forebears and applied the label „poetry” to texts that seemed at times to difer from prose only by the visual fact of lineation.2 Our Martian’s view is, of course, very schematic: clearly, a lot of rhymed and metered poems (including the most beloved ones) were written in America and Europe throughout the century; and quite a few Russian poets experimented with free verse. Still, statistically speaking, the twentieth century (especially its second half) was marked by the dominance of free verse in the West, but not in Russia. Not only is t

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Gronas M.

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nonfiction

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Literary Fiction, Fiction