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The Most Dangerous Art : Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution by Donald Loewen; ProQuest (Firm) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. <i>The Most Dangerous Art</i> shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional trajectory that corresponds to the intensity of the social and state pressures that threatened Russian poets from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. During a period when literature became
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- Author
- Donald Loewen; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Lexington Books Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated [distributor
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780739120835
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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