A Selection of Russian Poetry from the 20th Century

Author: Wang Fuxiang (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features:
Part 1 Chapter 1 Overview of the Development of Russian Poetry in the 20th Century
Section 1 Silver Age Poetry Classicism Realism Symbolism "Poet's Workshop" Akhmatism Futurism Imagism "Centrifuge" Literary Group "Syzyphus" Literary Group
Section 2 Poetry of the 1920s-1930s Constructivism "Kузница" Literary Group "Oktyabr" Literary Group "Molodaia Gvardiya" (Young Guard), "Lev" (Left), and "RAPP" (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers)
Section 3 Poetry During the Great Patriotic War and the Post-War Period
Section 4 Poetry from the "Thaw" Period to the 1960s
Section 5 Poetry of the 1970s-1990s
Part 2 Chapter 2 The Language of Russian Poetry
Section 1 Poetic Phonology
1. Assimilation
2. Addition
3. Stress
4. Line
5. Pause
6. Onomatopoeia
7. Phonetic Imagery
8. Phonetic Reduplication
Section 2 Poetic Lexicon
1. Written Vocabulary
A. Old Slavic Words
B. Archaic Words
C. Old Poetic Words
D. Folk Poetic Words
E. New Words
F. Loanwords
2. Spoken Vocabulary
A. Colloquial Words
B. Dialectal Words
C. Slang Words
Section 3 Characteristics of Poetic Language Use
1. Collocations
2. Word Choice
A. Synonyms
Part 2