Champagne for the Brain: Reading and Writing Onegin Stanzas with American Undergraduates (1).
Pushkin Review 2004, Annual, 6-7
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Publisher Description
Eugene Onegin--like champagne Its effervescence stirs my brain. (Vikram Seth, A Golden Gate, 1986) "Poetry as we know it is dying." Thus David Bethea opens his 1998 book on Alexander Pushkin (3); similar laments on undergraduates' "bewilderment" when asked to read poems (Lanser, 81) can be found throughout English-language scholarship on both poetry and pedagogy. Apparently, anglophone students today do not particularly enjoy poetry, unless in the updated context of rap or poetry slams. On the other hand, in a 1999 interview, award-winning and best-selling novelist Vikram Seth named Pushkin as the writer who has influenced him most:
GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2004
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13
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PUBLISHER
Slavica Publishers, Inc.
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The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
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189.6
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