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Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2020). Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes. In T. Boes, R. Braun, & E. Spiers (Eds.), World Authorship (46-59). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198819653.013.4

Eastern Europe has been provocatively defined as ‘that part of the world where serious literature and those who produce it have traditionally been overvalued’ (Baruch Wachtel Remaining Relevant after Communism (2006)). This situation arose because of... Read More about Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes.

Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World Literature (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2020). Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World Literature. In K. Seigneurie, W. Denecke, I. L. Ramelli, C. Chism, C. Lupke, E. Nicoll-Johnson, …B. V. Mani (Eds.), A companion to world literature. John Wiley and Sons

Literary Celebrity and Late Style: Anna Akhmatova's Unfinished Cinema Scenario about Pilots and Poem Without A Hero (2017)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2017). Literary Celebrity and Late Style: Anna Akhmatova's Unfinished Cinema Scenario about Pilots and Poem Without A Hero. Slavonic and East European Review, 95(3), 458-503. https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.95.3.0458

This article brings theoretical discussions of literary celebrity and the concept of ‘late style’ into dialogue with one another, arguing that celebrity and a concern with reputation can be significant factors in the development of late style. It exp... Read More about Literary Celebrity and Late Style: Anna Akhmatova's Unfinished Cinema Scenario about Pilots and Poem Without A Hero.

'"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult' (2017)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2017). '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'. In K. Hodgson, A. Smith, & J. Shelton (Eds.), Twentieth-century Russian poetry : reinventing the canon (63-93). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0076.03

This chapter argues that Akhmatova's pre-eminent status in the contemporary canon rests not only on poetic talent but on extra-literary factors and processes which have elevated her to a form of secular sainthood. It explores the role played by biogr... Read More about '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'.

‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West (2016)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2016). ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West. Celebrity Studies, 7(4), 509-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2016.1233769

Russian literary celebrity of the Soviet era is conditioned by specific factors that challenge key assumptions in scholarship focused on western culture. These factors (which include stringent censorship, doctrinaire cultural policy, and samizdat) an... Read More about ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West.

Melodrama, Feeling, and Emotion in the Early Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (2013)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2013). Melodrama, Feeling, and Emotion in the Early Poetry of Anna Akhmatova. Modern Language Review, 108(1), 241-273. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0241

This article investigates the ways in which Akhmatova's early love poetry combines features of melodrama with others that suggest its rejection. It argues that a consideration of the poetry's relationship with melodrama furnishes insights into how th... Read More about Melodrama, Feeling, and Emotion in the Early Poetry of Anna Akhmatova.

Anna Akhmatova (2012)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2012). Anna Akhmatova. In S. M. Norris, & W. Sunderland (Eds.), Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia 1500 to the Present (255-263). Indiana University Press

Chaosmos: Observations on the Stanza Form of Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero (2007)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2007). Chaosmos: Observations on the Stanza Form of Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero. Library history, 13(2), 99-112. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581407x228920

Recent critical observations on Akhmatova's Poema bez geroia (Poem Without a Hero) are drawn together, suggesting that it detaches itself from modernism and moves beyond it in various ways. These ideas are then extended in relation to the poem's inno... Read More about Chaosmos: Observations on the Stanza Form of Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero.

Reading Between the Lines: '...A ia molchu', Akhmatova's Silent-Speaking Elegy (2007)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2007). Reading Between the Lines: '...A ia molchu', Akhmatova's Silent-Speaking Elegy. Modern Language Review, 102(3), 793-809. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467435

This article is concerned with the spatial, visual dimension of Akhmatova's poetry and the ways in which she draws attention to the aesthetics of the material text or uses space on the page in order to convey her ideas graphically and to amplify the... Read More about Reading Between the Lines: '...A ia molchu', Akhmatova's Silent-Speaking Elegy.