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...Renato Poggioli, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and one of the country's leading Slavic scholars, died Friday at Crescent City Hospital, California, as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident last Monday. He was 56 years...
Discussing the literacy aspects of the novel, Poggioli said that "one can call Zhivago a morality play: its message is the message of individualism." Zhivago, he explained, "is a passive victim of his ordeal, but he triumphs over his ordeal even in death...
Billington and Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, participated in a forum entitled "The Case of Doctor Zhivago." Billington analyzed the political implications of the novel while Poggioli spoke on its literary significance...
...mysterious thing," Poggioli commented, "that it is virtually impossible to continue writing avant-garde literature. under a totalitarian regine." The reason for this, Poggioli said, is that any literature written under such a regime must reflect a reversion to tradition, and, "since the tradition upheld under the Soviet regime is cheap, Zhivago represents a search for something else...
James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend...