Bethea D.M. Realizing Metaphors. Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet

Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 1998. — 244 p.A Note on Transliteration.Realizing Metaphors, Situating Pushkin.
Why Pushkin?
The Problem of Poetic Biography.
Freud: The Curse of the Literally Figurative.
Bloom: The Critic as Romantic Poet.
Jakobson: Why the Statue Won’t Come to Life, or Will It?
Lotman: The Code and Its Relation to Literary Biography.
Pushkin, Derzhavin, and the Life of the Poet.
Why Derzhavin?
1814-1815.
1825-1826.
1830-1831.1836.