Bøger af Olga Peters Hasty

Explores the rich theme of the myth of Orpheus as master narrative for poetic inspiration and creative survival in the life and work of Marina Tsvetaeva. Olga Peters Hasty establishes the basic themes of the Orphic Complex and orders her arguments in the tragic shape of the Orpheus myth as it worked itself out organically in Tsvetaeva's own life.

Studies how women who write poems were invented in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia by women poets themselves, readers who derived poets of their own design from women's poems, and male poets who fabricated women and wrote poems on their behalf.

Gathers travel accounts by Russian writers visiting the U.S. around the turn of the century, and offers background information on each other.

This work is a major revisionist reading of one of the central texts of the Russian canon, that focuses systematically on Tatiana Larina. This approach to ""Eugene Onegin"" should revitalize our understanding of both Alexandr Pushkin's heroine and the novel in which she appears.