Death In Quotation Marks
by S Boym /
2017 / English / PDF
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Marina Tsvetaevaaddress to Rilke, already deceased, poetically expresses the desire that motivated my worka desire to shift, reopen, or make visible the numerous quotation marks around the words "life," "death," and "art," and expose critical "fabrications" about them. A reconsideration of the relationship between a literary persona, a biographical person, and a cultural personage will help me to elaborate cultural mythologies of the life of a modern poet and the connections between the making of poetry and the making of self.
