02187cam a2200313 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002500063020002200088020002500110020002200135035002200157050002500179100002000204245008800224260006100312300002500373490007500398504005100473505072700524520029101251650007301542650007501615830004601690942001201736952011001748999001501858on1191663056OCoLCta210531s2021    ilua     b    001 0 eng    a9780810143272 (pbk.)  a0810143275 (pbk.)  a9780810143289 (hbk.)  a0810143283 (hbk.)  a(OCoLC)1191663056  aPG3064.E94bM67 20211 aMorse, Ainsley.10aWord play :bexperimental poetry and Soviet children's literature /cAinsley Morse.  aEvanston, Ill. :bNorthwestern University Press, c2021.  axiii, 251 p. :bill.1 aNorthwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction. Living Backward: The Childlike in Unofficial Poetry -- Prologue. The Dictionary as a Toy Collection: The Avant-Garde Origins of the Childlike Aesthetic -- Soviet Alphabet: Early Soviet Children's Literature and Experimental Poetics -- Detki v kletke: OBERIU as the First Unofficial Children's Poets -- Playing with Words: Late Soviet Experimental Unofficial Poetry and Children's Literature -- Vsevolod Nekrasov: We All Come from Childhood -- Leonid Aronzon: Naked Child on a Hilltop -- Igor Kholin: Buy Your Kids a Poet -- Oleg Grigoriev: Children! If You Only Knew -- Dmitri Prigov: I Am Fragile and Small -- Epilogue "We can't keep hold of big loud letters": The Childlike Aesthetic in Post-Soviet Poetry.  a"Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children's literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor"-- 4aExperimental poetry, Russian y20th century xHistory and criticism. 4aChildren's literature, Russian y20th century xHistory and criticism. 0aStudies in Russian literature and theory.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oPG3064.E94 M67 2021pPNLIB21062896r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c3083d3083