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Contents Acknowledgments ix Notes to the Reader xi Introduction Irony and Authenticity 3 Chapter One Representing the Romantic Hero: Death and the Dream of Death 27 Chapter Two The Icon and the Window: Framing the Social Self and Literary Mediation 73 Chapter Three The Ineffable Self in the Landscape of Language: A Romantic Mythology of the Word 122 Chapter Four Poetry as Theater: Taking the Stage 172 Chapter Five Enter the Other: The Author and His Readers 250 Chapter Six Sincere Lies: Irony and Seduction in Hero of Our Time 329 Chapter Seven “Fierce Integrity”: Inner Freedom and Poetic Potentials 398 Conclusion Living into Language 460 Appendix: Russian Poems Cited in the Text 467 Notes 491 Indexes 541 ...

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