Pushkin's Poltava A Literary Structuralist

In Pushkin's Poltava, Virginia M. Burns provides a detailed literary structural analysis and reading of Aleksandr Pushkin's long narrative poem Poltava, through analysis devices of characterization, narrative structure and poetic structure, providing a new interpretation of its meaning.

Virginia M. Burns was former Fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.

Foreword I

vii

Foreword II

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part I. Background

Introduction: The Problem of ``Poltava''

1

(18)

Past Critical Views of ``Poltava''

19

(46)

Part II. Literary Analysis And Interpretation

Introduction

61

(4)

Characterization

65

(56)

Mazepa

65

(40)

Maria

105

(4)

Kochubey, Karl, and Peter

109

(12)

Historical Events

121

(24)

Narrative Structure

145

(30)

Poetic Structure

175

(14)

Conclusion: Theory of History

189

(20)

Appendix I. Chart of Stanzas

209

(4)

Appendix II. Translations

213

(1)

English Translations

213

(12)

Russian Texts

225

(6)

Bibliography

231

(22)

Index

253

(4)

The Author and the Editor

257

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Pushkin's Poltava A Literary Structuralist Interpretation

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