Pnncipal Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. A Note on the Transliteration xix
6. Pnncipal Abbreviations xxi
7. 1. Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile: A Polemical Introduction 1
8. 2. Brodsky's Triangular Vision: Exile as Palimpsest 48
9. 3. The Flea and the Butterfly: John Donne and the Case for Brodsky as Russian Metaphysical 74
10. 4. Exile, Elegy, and "Auden-ticity" in Brodsky's "Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot" 120
11. 5. Judaism and Christianity in Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Brodsky: Exile and "Creative Destiny" 140
12. 6. "This Sex Which Is Not One" versus This Poet Which Is "Less Than One": Tsvetaeva, Brodsky, and Exilic Desire 174
13. 7. Exile as Pupation: Genre and Bilingualism in the Works of Nabokov and Brodsky 214
14. Afterword 252
15. Notes 255
16. Works Cited 299
17. Index 313