Literary criticism of the work of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has tended to be biographical, stressing the significance
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Justification for the Term "Baroque"
2 Kierkegaard and Šestov: Affinities and Influence in Brodsky's Pre-Exile Verse, 1957–1972
3 The Influence of John Donne, Relative to Existentialism, 1957–1972
4 The Baroque Leap of Faith, 1972–1979
5 The Post-Baroque, 1980–1989
6 Nomadism and Venice, 1990–1996
7 The Consequences of Nomadism: Late Bilingualism and Posthumous Biographies
Bibliography
Index
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