The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self

by Erica Camisa Morale

The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic and Russian poetry of early modernity. Considering poems by male and female authors from Slavia Orientalis (today's Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Poland and the Baltic states), Erica Camisa Morale explores the origins of the lyric and the emergence of selfhood in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She analyzes this phenomenon against the backdrop of the t

ISBN: 9781501788475

294 pages

Published: 2026-08-15

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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