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CONTENTS oF List of Illustrations Vlll Preface ix Acknowledgments xv A Note on Transliteration XVll Abbreviations xviii PART I: Realizing Metaphors, Situating Pushkin Why Pushkin? 3 The Problem of Poetic Biography 34 Freud: The Curse ofthe Literally Figurative 45 Bloom: The Critic as Romantic Poet 67 Jakobson: Why the Statue Won't Come to Life, or Will It? 89 Lotman: The Code and Its Relation to Literary Biography 118 PART II: Pushkin, Derzhavin, and the Life ofthe Poet Why Derzhavin? 137 1814-1815 154 1825-1826 173 1830-1831 189 1836 199 Index 237 VII Copyrighted Material ...

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