Clowes Russian Experimental Fiction

Resisting Ideology after Utopia
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6353-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 273, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Clowes, Edith W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

List of Abbreviations

Pt. 1 Experimental Fiction Against Ideological Fixation

Ch. 1 Meta-utopian Writing: The Problem of Utopia as Ideology 3

Ch. 2 Publishing the Dystopian Heritage: The Glasnost Debate about Literary Experiment and Utopian Ideology 25

Pt. 2 The Meta-Utopian Experiment in Fiction: Elements of Literary and Ideological Reanimation

Ch. 3 Charting Meta-utopia: Chronotopes of Disorientation 41

Ch. 4 Science, Ideology, and the Structure of Meta-utopian Narrative 70

Ch. 5 The Meta-utopian Language Problem, or Utopia as a Bump on a -log- 94

Ch. 6 Meta-utopian Consciousness 122

Pt. 3 The Reader in the Text: Popularizing the Meta-Utopian Mentality

Ch. 7 Making Meta-utopia Accessible: Zinoviev's The Radiant Future 145

Ch. 8 Utopia, Imagination, and Memory: The Strugatsky Brothers' The Ugly Swans, Tendriakov's A Potshot at Mirages, and Aksenov's The Island of Crimea 162

Ch. 9 Parody of Popular Forms in Iskander's Rabbits and Boa Constrictors and Voinovich's Moscow 2042 183

Ch. 10 Play with Closure in Petrushevskaia's "The New Robinsons" and Kabakov's "The Deserter" 198

Conclusion: The Utopian Impulse after 1968: Russian Meta-utopian Fiction in a European Context 208

Bibliography 223

Index 233