Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance

287 Pages·2019·2.272 MB·English

by  Sidney Eric Dement

Pushkin’s Monument
and Allusion
Poem, Statue, Performance
SIDNEY ERIC DEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2019
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Pushkin’s Monument and allusion: poem, statue, performance /
Sidney Eric Dement.
Names: Dement, Sidney Eric, 1978– author.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190087560 | ISBN 9781487505523 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837 – Monuments –
Russia (Federation) – Moscow. | LCSH: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich,
1799–1837 – Allusions. | LCSH: Pushkin, Aleksandr
Sergeevich, 1799–1837 – Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC PG3353.D46 2019 | DDC 891.71/3—dc23
Publication of this book was made possible, in part, by a grant from
the First Book Subvention Program of the Association for Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Funded by the Financé par le
Government gouvernement
of Canada du Canada
PUSHKIN’S MONUMENT AND ALLUSION
Poem, Statue, Performance
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Dimensions of the Pushkin Monument 3
1 Pushkin’s Poem: Monument and Allusion (1811–1836) 39
2 Opekushin’s Pushkin Monument: Statue and
Performance (1836–1880) 75
3 Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita: Crisis of the
Future Poet (1880–1937) 111
4 Toporov’s Petersburg Text: Rejecting the Statue (1937–2003) 141
5 Tolstaia’s Slynx: Disfiguring the Monument (1986–2000) 167
Conclusion: Allusion and the Naive Reader 197
Appendix 203
Notes 211
Bibliography 255
Index 267
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Figures
I.1 The visual and verbal dimensions of the Pushkin
Monument in Moscow, 2010 5
I.2 A pre-revolutionary postcard of Tverskaia Square 7
I.3 The Pushkin Monument during the celebration of the
twentieth anniversary of Pravda, 1932 8
I.4 The cover of The Construction of Moscow from
February 1937 10
I.5 The monument to Prometheus standing in place of the
recently destroyed Strastnoi Monastery, ca 1938 11
I.6 Contemplating poem, statue, and performance as
dimensions of the Pushkin Monument, 2017 13
I.7 The Pushkin Monument, the sky, and verticality as
monumental trope, 2018 36
2.1 Proposed designs for a Pushkin monument by
I.N. Shreder, P.P. Zabello, and A.M. Opekushin, 1875 91
2.2 Proposed design for a Pushkin monument by
M.M. Antokol’skii, 1875 92
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