Marina Tsvetaeva As Literary Critic And Critic Of Literary Critics

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Like most of her readers, I know her best as a poet, and this identity both authorises and complicates her critical position and authorial voice.Her critical texts tend to be used to illumine her work in genres that reveal and cre ate an individual speaking self, although they also call attention to the 'critical' content of her poetry.Tsvetaeva's criticism offers much more, however: while accepting most of the Russian poetic canon of her age, it conveys ambiguous messages both about the critic's authority and pro ject and about her relationship to her predecessors.The critical articles merge in many ways with her other prose (memoirs, autobiography, and especially literary theory);^ the difficulty of drawing genre boundaries in Tsvetaeva's prose reflects her intentional genre-mixing, as well as her challenge to the literary hierarchies that contribute to genre definitions.Her urge to claim authority, expressed through her use of accepted criti cal tone and terminology in parts of her

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