12. Slavic Gift Giving, the Poet in History, and Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Note on Transliteration 8
4. Preface 9
5. I. Part One: Russian Literature: Background, Foreground, Creative Cognition
6. 1. The Mythopoetic “Vectors” of Russian Literature 27
7. 2. Mythopoesis Writ Large: The Apocalyptic Plot in Russian Literature 41
8. 3. Mythopoesis and Biography: Pushkin, Jakobson, and the Secret Life of Statues 101
9. 4. The Evolution of Evolution: Genes, Memes, Intelligent Design, and Nabokov 127
10. 5. Relativity and Reality: Dante, Florensky, Lotman, and Metaphorical Time-Travel 149
11. 6. Whose Mind is This Anyway? Influence, Intertextuality, and the Legitimate Boundaries of Scholarship 167
12. II. Part Two: Pushkin the Poet, Pushkin the Thinker
13. 7. Of Pushkin and Pushkinists 185
14. 8. Biography (with Sergei Davydov) 205
15. 9. Pushkin’s Mythopoetic Consciousness: Apuleius, Psyche and Cupid, and the Theme of Metamorphosis in Eugene Onegin 227
16. 10. “A Higher Audacity”: How to Read Pushkin’s Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest 249
17. 11. Stabat Pater: Revisiting the “Monumental” in Peter, Petersburg, and Pushkin 265
18. 12. Slavic Gift Giving, the Poet in History, and Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter 281
19. 13. Pushkin’s The History of Pugachev: Where Fact Meets the Zero-Degree of Fiction 301
20. III. Part Three: Reading Russian Writers Reading Themselves and Others
21. 14. Sorrento Photographs: Khodasevich’s Memory Speaks 323
22. 15. Nabokov’s Style 337
23. 16. Sologub, Nabokov, and the Limits of Decadent Aesthetics 347
24. 17. Exile, Elegy, and Auden in Brodsky’s “Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot” 363
25. 18. Joseph Brodsky and the American Seashore Poem: Lowell, Mandelstam, and Cape Cod 381
26. 19. Joseph Brodsky’s “To My Daughter” (A Reading) 391
27. 20. Brodsky, Frost, and the Pygmalion Myth 405
28. Index 421