The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Missing Centres, Hints and Evasions - Epistemological Uncertainty in the Early Period; Epistemology and Ontology in the Debate between Acmeism and Symbolism; Epistemology and the Conventions of Lyric Poetry;  Truncated Plot in Akhmatova's Early Lyrics, The Nineteenth-Century Novel; Cinema and Cubism; Avant-Garde Techniques in the Early Poetry; Montage Composition in Lyric Cycles; Towards a Nouvea Roman; The Chameleon Persona; From Epistemology to Ontology; 2. Requiem - The Upturned World and Disintegrating Self; The Modern Poetic Sequence; The Paratexts of Requiem; The Inconsistent Speaker and Fragmenting Text; The Transformation of the Speaker; 3. Ends and Beginnings, Different Selves and Possible Worlds - Ontological Instability in the 'Northern Elegies'; The Alien World of the Past; The World Next Door; Possible Worlds of the Future; Forking Paths and Other Dramas; Paper Worlds; The World of Fiction, Ironic Beginnings, 4. Non-Meetings and the World Through the Looking Glass - Akhmatova's Late Cycles; The Poetics of Negation and Paradox; Non-Meetings and Non-Being; The Burnt Notebook; Living, Dying and Resurrection; 'Midnight Verses'; 5. Worlds Within Worlds - Poem Without a Hero; The Text-within-a-Text; Viewing 1913 from 1940 - the Postmodernist Return to Modernism; Akhmatova's Critique of the 1910s; The Surpassing of Modernism; Postmodernist Pla(y)giarism; Converstaion betwewen an Author and an Editor; The Multiple Author; Multiple Endings and Paratextual Paraphernalia; Rough Drafts; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index