Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | |
politics | Anna Akhmatova | The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist
regime now headed by Joseph Stalin
. Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam
, a fellow writer... |
Literary responses | Anna Akhmatova | Stalin
endorsed Akhmatova's letter with an order to free the prisoners. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 151 |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | After Stalin
fell from power, with Poem Without a Hero circulating in manuscript, there was serious thought about publishing it. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 260 |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Akhmatova | The implicit message of these poems is praise of Stalin
, but they did nothing to soften him towards her. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 228 |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | Relieved from the burden of the Stalin
era, AA
now began engaging with young writers in poetry readings and literary discussions, so much so as to become a living proof that literature was still alive. |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | |
Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | In her review for the Guardian, Susanna Rustin
was resolutely not too impressed. She found the characters too black-and-white, and that the novel has little to say about the function of art. .... |
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