Item #003568 Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet. Svetlana Boym.

Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #003568

Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature No. 41. Full number line. Black cloth boards with red lettering to spine. viii, 291 p.p. Light bumping and one short tear to head of dust jacket, chafing to edges of flaps, else a fine copy. In a broad-ranging analysis of modern French and Russian writing - from poems, plays and essays to revolutionary marches, fashion magazines, and suicide notes - Svetlana Boym reconsiders the making and unmaking of the self in writing and in life. A tight, clean copy overall.

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