Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. A Note on Transliteration xiii
6. Introduction: The Sincere Voice, or How Sincerity Is Written and Read in Russian, and Not Only Russian, Poetry 1
7. 1 The Problem of Sincerity and the Poetic Device in Gavrila Derzhavin’s Odes 25
8. 2 Romantic Sincerities I 47
9. 3 Romantic Sincerities II: Late-Romantic Sincerities 80
10. 4 A Fault Line in Modernism 114
11. 5 Poetic Sincerity in the Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Context 143
12. 6 Case Studies in Turn-of-the-Millennium Sincerity 175
13. Conclusion 205
14. Appendix: Another Vista on Pushkin’s “Monument” 211
15. Notes 215
16. References 295
17. Index 319