- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions
- Introduction: ‘Not Written by a Lady’
- 1 The ‘Feminine Pen’ and the Imagination of National Tradition: Russian Women's Writing, 1820–1880
- 2 Mariya Zhukova (1804–1855)
- 3 Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
- 4 Elena Gan (1814–1842)
- 5 Configurations of Authority: Feminism, Modernism, and Mass Culture, 1881–1917
- 6 Olga Shapir (1850–1916)
- 7 Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)
- 8. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- 9 Class War and the Home Front: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (1917–1953)
- 10 Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- 11 Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
- 12 Vera Bulich (1898–1954)
- 13 Who Wants to be a Man? De-Stalinizing Gender, 1954–1992
- 14 Natalya Baranskaya (1908– )
- 15 Elena Shvarts (1948– )
- 16 Olga Sedakova (1949– )
- 17 Nina Sadur (1950– )
- 17. Instead of an Afterword: Some Concluding Points
- Bibliography
- Index of Women Writers Cited
- General Index
Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- Chapter:
- (p.285) 10 Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- Source:
- A History of Russian Women's Writing 1820–1992
- Author(s):
Catriona Kelly
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Sofiya Parnok is a Russian poet who was able to comprehend gender as a facet of her identity at will, instead of passively accepting its dictates. This chapter discusses different passages of Parnok's poems and how these relate to masculinity, femininity, or gender in general.
Keywords: Sofiya Parnok, Russian poet, gender, identity, masculinity, femininity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions
- Introduction: ‘Not Written by a Lady’
- 1 The ‘Feminine Pen’ and the Imagination of National Tradition: Russian Women's Writing, 1820–1880
- 2 Mariya Zhukova (1804–1855)
- 3 Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
- 4 Elena Gan (1814–1842)
- 5 Configurations of Authority: Feminism, Modernism, and Mass Culture, 1881–1917
- 6 Olga Shapir (1850–1916)
- 7 Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)
- 8. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- 9 Class War and the Home Front: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (1917–1953)
- 10 Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- 11 Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
- 12 Vera Bulich (1898–1954)
- 13 Who Wants to be a Man? De-Stalinizing Gender, 1954–1992
- 14 Natalya Baranskaya (1908– )
- 15 Elena Shvarts (1948– )
- 16 Olga Sedakova (1949– )
- 17 Nina Sadur (1950– )
- 17. Instead of an Afterword: Some Concluding Points
- Bibliography
- Index of Women Writers Cited
- General Index