| Contents |
The uses of space in Petersburg poetry : from neutral description to identification -- Embattled spirits-selves : elegy and identification with Petersburg spaces -- Rushing back to nothingness : historical treatments of self and space before and during the revolution -- Identification with Petersburg, dead or dying -- Attempts to reverse time : traveling in space in quest of the integral self -- The visible Petersburg and the dominance of space -- The buried sun and the invisible Petersburg : a reconstructed writer's idyll -- Changing, mastering, and amazing spaces -- Petersburg space as creative and destructive memory : recovered health and tragic sickness in Mandelʹštam and Nabokov -- Poem without a hero : complexity of the creative self in twentieth-century Russia -- Conclusion : the russification of Petersburg. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Crone, Anna Lisa. My Petersburg/myself. Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica Publishers, c2004 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2004009946 |
| ISBN | 0893573132 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780893573133 (pbk.) |
