Puskin’s ”Poltava”: A Literary Structuralist Interpretation

Burns provides a detailed, literary-structuralist analysis of Aleksandr Pushkin's narrative poem, "Poltava." She challenges many prior critical approaches and offers a new interpretation in which the poem's meaning may be derived primarily from the unique and unifying organization of its structure. Burns (1939-1992) was affiliated with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the U. of Toronto. The text (edited by her daughter) is based upon her doctoral dissertation. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)