Boym S. Death in Quotation Marks. Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991. — 300 p.Literature, Biography, and the Modern "Death of the Author".
From the Death of the Author to a Poetics of Everyday Life.
The Theater of the Self: Myth, Fashion, and Writing.
The Death of the Author: Stopping Living and Stopping Writing.
The "Book" and the "Life": Mallarmé and Rimbaud Theoretical Necrophilia: The Tomb of Mallarmé Revisited.
Writing and Domestic Sacrifice.
Black Velvet of Talent, or the Figuration of the Pure Poet.
The White Butterfly, or the Erotics of Impurity.
The "Purest Poet": Myth Making and Mis-Reading.
Mallarmé's Embarrassment, or Rimbaud's Undressing.
The Violence of Poetics: The Scars of Arthur Rimbaud.
"La Vraie Vie est absente".
Rimbaud and His Doubles.
2 The Death of the Revolutionary Poet.
"Revolutionary Poet": History, Myth, and the Theater of Cruelty.
"Vladimir Mayakovsky": Personification and Depersonalization.
A Portrait of the Artist in a Yellow Blouse: Metaphor and.
Transgression.
Suicide as a Literary Fact: "Vladimir Mayakovsky" by Roman Jakobson.
Poetics of Mistranslation: "Vladimir Mayakovsky" by André Breton.
Politics of Mistranslation: "Vladimir Mayakovsky" by Louis Aragon.
The Revolutionary Poet: Oxymoron or Tautology?
The Death of the Poetess.
The "Poetess": Lack, Excess, and Aesthetic Obscenity.
The Poetess's Self-Defense: Close Reading and Clothes Reading.
The Death of the Poet: Emigration beyond Gender?
Death in the Feminine: The Amazon's Severed Breast.
Postmortem: Poetess without Quotation Marks.
Conclusion: The Death of the Critic?
Notes.