Pushkin and the Imperial Lyceum: A Sentimental Education for an Unsentimental Upbringing
Literature, Art, and Cultural Studies
English - March 30, 2006 17:00 - 1 hour - 15.4 MB - ★★★ - 7 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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David Bethea gives the annual Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture in European Literature, a discussion of the adolescence of Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet and novelist. Bethea is the Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin and the author of four books, including Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Wisconsin, 1998) and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton, 1994).
Bethea is introduced by Cynthia Simmons, professor of Slavic and Eastern languages.
Speaker: David Bethea
Date: March 30, 2006
Length: 1:07:11