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Article: Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet. By Stephanie Sandler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2004. 406 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8047-3448-6.
Stephanie Sandler's chosen topic is both ambitious and wide-ranging, but is consequently one that is likely to appeal to a broad readership. Commemorating Pushkin aims to chronicle Russia's changing relationship with Pushkin, from his death to the present day, and particularly the ways in which different images of Pushkin have been created and fostered through mediums such as poetry, literature, theatre, and film. In tackling such a broad theme, Sandler freely acknowledges that her ...