Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20010101
Author:Mikkelson, Gerald E.

Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet. By DAVID M. BETHEA. (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies, 1) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1998. xviii + 244 pp.

Published just in time for the 1999 worldwide celebrations of the bicentennial of Pushkin's birth, David M. Bethea has written a most elegant and necessary book on the life and art of Russia's greatest poet. Realizing Metaphors offers us an erudite and courageous polemic with several of the pillars of contemporary literary theory (Freud, Bloom, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Lotman) and ...

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