{"product_id":"9781628921885","title":"The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History","description":"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExecuting a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158694740208,"sku":"9781628921885","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628921885_p0.jpg?v=1763870530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628921885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}