ASEEES annual conference, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Description

Delivered conference paper "The Precarity of Memory, Russian Poetic Canon, and Brodsky's Legacy" at the ASEEES virtual conference, 13-14 October 2022.
The paper examines several literary responses to Brodsky's death in 1996, including essays by Sedakova and Tolstaya. It is argued that in Russia Brodsky's legacy can be seen as a contested site of memory. It appears to be difficult for Russian intellectuals to fit Brodsky into the national poetic canon associated with Pushkin. While some critics of Brodsky (including Evtushenko and Solzhenitsyn) see Brodsky as an outsider, other authors and critics (such as Sedakova and Kushner) see him as a neo-Acmeist poet who embraced the notion of longing for world culture.

Period	13 Oct 2022 → 14 Oct 2022
Event type	Conference
Conference number	54
Location	Pittsburg, United States, PennsylvaniaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International