RUSS 223 Lecture 10: RUSS 223 - Lecture 10 - October 5th
22 Feb 2018
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Aleksandr sergeevich pushkin continued; (cid:498)the bronze horseman(cid:499); (cid:498)the queen of. Very well contained rivers and canals: man vs. Inverted epic: epic: hero leaves home, goes through catastrophes, comes back and founds a city, bronze horseman: city is founded, catastrophe happens to the city, little changes. It is ambiguous, and therefore may be even more creepy: secret numbers: 3, 7, 1. What do we make of this: literary tradition, lisaveta = poor liza, 280-281: conversations about novels, 287: hermann"s love letter (cid:498)is there such a thing? (cid:499) as russian novels: pushkin is saying yes. I"ve written one. (cid:498)word for word from a german novel(cid:499): he is still linked to german- ness. Just borrowing romantic love, as he himself is very orderly: foreshadowing what is to come. Hermann and the countess: hermann meeting the countess links to the bible, parable of matthew: keeps the lamp lit, waiting for the bridegroom, hermann considers being the bridegroom (considers becoming the (the lord)
