Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture

Joe Andrew is Professor Emeritus at Keele University. He has published over 25 books, and hundreds of other pieces, mostly on nineteenth-century Russian literature, but he has also written on twentieth-century Russian literature, as well as Russian and British film.Katharine Hodgson is Professor in Russian at the University of Exeter. Her recent work has been on post-Soviet changes to the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry. She is now exploring the ways in which poets defined their poetic affinities and identities during the Soviet period.Robert Reid is an Honorary Fellow of Keele University where he was formerly Reader in Russian. He has published widely on Russian literature. His most recent publication is Tolstoi: Art and Influence, edited with Joe Andrew (Brill, 2023).Alexandra Smith is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on Russian literature and culture. Most recently she has co-edited a book on film adaptations of Russian literature: Film Adaptations of Russian Literature: Dialogue and Authorship.

• ContentsList of Charts, Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsJoseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture: IntroductionJoe Andrew, Katharine Hodgson, Robert Reid and Alexandra Smith1 The Case of the Polukhina – Brodsky ArchiveArina Bedrina2 Valentina Polukhina and the Joseph Brodsky Museum FoundationMikhail Milchik and Anton Alekseevskii3 Valentina Polukhina, Lev Loseff and the Invention of Brodsky StudiesCarol Ueland4 Valentina Polukhina on Metaphor in Brodsky’s and Khlebnikov’s PoetryWillem G. Weststeijn5 The Brodsky Legacy: Looking Backwards, Looking ForwardDavid Bethea6 Between Reflective Nostalgia and Counter-Memory: the Reception of Brodsky by Russian Authors after 1996Alexandra Smith7 Is Brodsky a Poet for Our Time?Maria Rubins8 Rethinking Joseph Brodsky: Imperialism, Conservatism, and the Primacy of AestheticsMarat Grinberg9 Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) and Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998): ‘a Touch of Normal Classicism’Zakhar Ishov10 Joseph Brodsky the War PoetKatharine Hodgson11 Jewish Themes in Brodsky’s Poetry: in Search of His Ethnocultural PositionHenrietta Mondry12 From Variety to Monotony and Back: the Rhythm(s) of Brodsky’s Iambic TetrametersAndrei Dobritsyn, Sergei Liapin and Igor Pilshchikov13 A Room and a Half and the Art of Poetic CinemaOlga Sobolev14 Joseph Brodsky’s Postcards to Friends: Translingual TextsNatasha Rulyova15 Fifty Shades of Black: an Analysis of Был черный небосвод светлей тех ног … in Conjunction with Its English TranslationRobin Milner-Gulland and Olga Sobolev16 Echoing Dante’s Footsteps: Joseph Brodsky on the Threshold of The Divine ComedyOlga SedakovaIndex