Mandel'shtam's Poetics: A Challenge to Postmodernism

Osip Mandel'shtam (1891-1938) is considered by many to have been the best Russian poet of his era, and he also wrote a number of critical essays, often considered to be almost impenetrable.

Elena Glazov-Corrigan analyses Mandel'shtam's thoughts on poetry and art in the context of the major Postmodern literary debates, and traces their development throughout his writings.;This is an attempt to describe in a comprehensive way Mandel'shtam's intellectual world and its effect on his evolution as a thinker - specifically, on differences in his attitude towards language.

This approach shows that from the 1920s to the 1930s, a definite development takes place in

Many of the author's ideas run contrary to the received wisdom about Mandel'shtam.