Madness as Balancing Act in Joseph Brodsky's "Gorbunov and Gorchakov"
Madness as Balancing Act in Joseph Brodsky's "Gorbunov and Gorchakov"
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Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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This article examines the psychological connotations of Joseph Brodsky's “art of estrangement” in light of the psychiatric evaluations the poet underwent in 1963 and 1964 and his depiction of madness in the poem “Gorbunov and Gorchakov” (1965–68). Several years before the punitive uses of Soviet psychiatry came to the attention of samizdat readers,...
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Madness as Balancing Act in Joseph Brodsky's "Gorbunov and Gorchakov"
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1315603605
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1315603605
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0036-0341
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1467-9434
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10.1111/russ.10680
