Introduction. Forms of Time-Space (Chronotope) in Poetry
Part One. Beyond Barriers: Avant-Gardе and Futurism
1. Forms of Chronotope in Avant-Garde Poetry
2. “The King of Time” and “The Slave of Time”: Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Part Two. Chronotopes of Reality and History in the Poetry of Osip Mandelstam, W. B. Yeats, and Ezra Pound
1. Nature and “The Artifice of Eternity”: The Relation to Nature and Reality for Yeats, Pound, and Mandelstam
2. “Sailing to Byzantium”—“Sailing after Knowledge”: Byzantium as a Symbol of Cultural Heritage in Mandelstam, Yeats, and Pound
3. Fear and Awe: Osip Mandelstam’s “The Slate Ode”
Part Three. T. S. Eliot: “Liberation from the Future as Well as the Past”
1. The Waste Land as a Human Drama Revealed by Eliot’s Dialogic Imagination
2. “Liberation from the Future as well as the Past”: Time-Space and History in Four Quartets
Part Four. Joseph Brodsky: “The River of Time” or “What Gets Left of a Man”
Part Five. John Ashbery: “Time Is an Emulsion”
Part Six. Charles Bernstein: “Of Time and the Line”
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index