Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Sincere Voice, or How Sincerity Is Written and Read in Russian, and Not Only Russian, Poetry
Preliminaries
Two Poles in the Conceptualization of Sincerity
Voice
Decoding Sincerity
The Structure of This Study
1. The Problem of Sincerity and the Poetic Device in Derzhavin’s Odes
2. Romantic Sincerities I
From Genre to the Sincere Voice (Alexander Pushkin)
Romantic Charisma and the Material Trace (Dmitry Venevitinov)
3. Romantic Sincerities II: Late-Romantic Sincerities
Disarming the Byronic Hero (Mikhail Lermontov)
A Poetics of Abandon (Apollon Grigoryev)
4. A Fault Line in Modernism
Blok vs. Mandelstam
Parallels in Anglo-American Modernism
Two Poems
5. Poetic Sincerity in the Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Context
Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem at the Crossroads of Sincerity Expectations
The Second Epilogue: Confession of Hubris?
Konstantin Levin: An Ironic Mid-Century Sincerity
6. Case Studies in Turn-of-the-Millennium Sincerity
Boris Ryzhy’s Renewal of Traditional Sincerity
The “Prodigal” Sincerity of Timur Kibirov
Conclusion
Appendix: Another Vista on Pushkin’s “Monument”
Notes
References
Index
