""Realizing Metaphors" addresses a question that is one of the most
exciting and controversial in the field of literary studiesthe
question of how (if at all) an artist's life relates to his or her
works. . . . Bethea brilliantly succeeds in his task. . . . The
result is a book that is a new word both in Pushkin studies and in
the field of literary biography." Irina Reyfman, Columbia
University
"After reading "Realizing Metaphors", I would like to express
my delight, first of all, at that which, while not an academic
accomplishment, is perhaps something even more rarethe author's
love toward Pushkin. . . . The Pushkin that appears in David
Bethea's book seems to me very much like the original, protean and
elusive."Olga Sedakova, Russian poet
"The book covers immense groundas an essay on the blindness and
insight of four major critic/thinkers (Freud, Bloom, Jakobson,
Lotman) and as a rigorous and penetrating study of the relationship
of two of Russia's greatest poets (Pushkin and Derzhavin). I have
never read anything quite like it, either as a daring essay in
critical theory or a study of Pushkin's lifelong encounter with his
great predecessor."William Mills Todd, Harvard University
""Realizing Metaphors" addresses a question that is one of the most
exciting and controversial in the field of literary studies--the
question of how (if at all) an artist's life relates to his or her
works. . . . Bethea brilliantly succeeds in his task. . . . The
result is a book that is a new word both in Pushkin studies and in
the field of literary biography."-- Irina Reyfman, Columbia
University
"After reading "Realizing Metaphors," I would like to express my
delight, first of all, at that which, while not an academic
accomplishment, is perhaps something even more rare--the author's
love toward Pushkin. . . . The Pushkin that appears in David
Bethea's book seems to me very much like the original, protean and
elusive."--Olga Sedakova, Russian poet
"The book covers immense ground--as an essay on the blindness and
insight of four major critic/thinkers (Freud, Bloom, Jakobson,
Lotman) and as a rigorous and penetrating study of the relationship
of two of Russia's greatest poets (Pushkin and Derzhavin). I have
never read anything quite like it, either as a daring essay in
critical theory or a study of Pushkin's lifelong encounter with his
great predecessor."--William Mills Todd, Harvard University
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