This monograph explores this coexistence of ¿archaist and innovator¿ in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.

Preface

In Search of a Metaphor: In Place of an Introduction

Part 1. Magic Lantern (Projection)

Chapter 1. A Text in Performance

Shadows Only

Pregnant Moments

An Attempt in the Dramatic Field

Chapter 2. Lanterns and Lanternists

Laterna Magica

Citizen Robertson

The Fantasmagoria

Part 2. Rainbow (Refraction)

Chapter 1. Unweaving the Rainbow

The Meteorological Cycle

From Allegory to . . . Allegory

Magic Made Simple or Do-It-Yourself

Addison and His Pleasures

Chapter 2. The Limits of Imitation

Apelles and His Lines

Camera Obscura

The Child of Thaumas

Part 3. Garden of Memory (Reflection)

Chapter 1. The Keys to Zvanka

Beatus, My Brother

Essay on Man

The Art of Memory

A Peculiar Vision: Approaches to the Text

Chapter 2. Nine Views

Pleasures of the Imagination

Choral Vision

Fifteen Stanzas of Solitude

Chapter 3. The Poet¿s House

The Bard Lived There

Zvankäs Echo

Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: In Place of a Conclusion

Notes

References

Tatiana Smoliarova is an associate professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Toronto.