Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Part I
Immediacy and Distance
“The living and dangerous Blok . . .”
Symbolism and Acmeism: An Overview
The Curtain and the Onionskin
Chapter 2: Prescient Evasions of Bloom
Part II
Chapter 3: Departure
Chapter 4: The Pendulum at the Heart of Stone
Chapter 5: Struggling with the Faith
Ambivalent Irony and the Word
Inverting the Symbolist Heresiography
Stumbling into a New Poetics
Stealing the Sanctuary
Part III
Chapter 6: Bedside with the Symbolist Hero
Fodder for Parody
Modernist Time Poetics
The Mythopoetics of Tristia
Chapter 8: Blok’s Theater Poems
Chapter 9: Boundaries Erected, Boundaries Effaced
Masquerade Bounded
Theatrical Wonder Breaks Free
Part IV
Chapter 10: “To Anaxagoras” in the Velvet Night
Visions Apart
“To Anaxagoras” in the Velvet Night
Chapter 11: From Theatricality to Tragedy
Chapter 12: Of Badgers and Barstvennost’
Chapter 13: Conclusion: Whence (and Whither) Authenticity?
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index of Works by Mandelstam and Blok
Subject Index