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The paper considers sex and gender issues underlying Mikhail Kuzmin’s longer poem ‘The Trout Breaks the Ice’. In the Russian literary canon, Kuzmin has not obtained the high status he deserves because his openly gay writings are not acceptable either under homophobic Soviet law or by today’s official anti-LGBT Russian mindset. Interestingly, despite the poet’s notorious reputation, the homosexual...
The plot of Anna Akhmatovaʼs poem ‘Slander’: people talking about the lyric subject of the poem cause its death and make the addressee (the “you” = the reader) feel guilty, effectively prohibits any unauthorized opinion about the poet. Akhmatova was unhappy with the deliberately objective approach to the study of her poetics by Viktor Zhirmunskii, Boris Eikhenbaum and Viktor Vinogradov (“slander”)...
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