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cover of Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's We

Human Nature in Utopia

Zamyatin's We

Brett Cooke

Northwestern University Press, 2002

"""Engaging, provocative in the best sense, Cooke's is an excellent book."" --George Gutsche, University of Arizona ""The virtuoso merging of sociobiological ideas and standard critical techniques is an important vindication for the whole idea of a sociobiological literary criticism. This is a highly accomplished piece of literary scholarship. It will long stand as a landmark."" --Joseph Carroll, University of Missouri "
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cover of Nikolai Klyuev: Time and Text, Place and Poet

Nikolai Klyuev

Time and Text, Place and Poet

Michael Makin

Northwestern University Press, 2009

Nikolai Klyuev is the first book in English to examine the life and work of this enigmatic poet. Klyuev (1884–1937) rose to prominence in the early twentieth century as the first of the so-called "new peasant poets" but later fell victim to Stalinist hostility to both his cultural ideology and his homosexuality. He was arrested and exiled in 1933, then shot in 1937.
 
Klyuev’s work incorporates rich elements of folklore, mysticism, politics, and religion, and he sometimes invokes arcane Russian syntax and vocabulary. Makin’s feat is particularly notable because Klyuev was often elusive in his own accounts of his life, and Makin successfully brings into focus the poet’s deliberate strategies of self-mythologization. Nikolai Klyuev is an indispensable guide to the life and the work of an important poet winning wider recognition outside of Russia.

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