Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995
2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-333-79182-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: International Council for Central and East European Studies

Twentieth-Century Russian Literature is an edited collection of essays based on contributions to the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, held in Warsaw in 1995. The first section contains articles on writers from the early decades of the twentieth-century; the second part features studies devoted to a wide range of authors from the post-Stalin era, including many of the leading figures in contemporary Russian literature. Twenty-one scholars from seven countries have contributed to the volume.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, Karen

Scherr, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors PART I: THE EARLY DECADES Introduction; B.P.Scherr From the Finland Station: Ivan Konevskoi; J.D.Grossman Early Twentieth-century Best-sellers and the Aesthetics of 'Mass' Consciousness; A.Gracheva Shadow Narratives and the Novel: The Role of Rybin in Gorky's Mother; B.P.Scherr The City as Framed Spectacle in the Works of Elena Guro; M.Banjanin 'Apollion' and 'Voina': History and the Angel of Destruction in Voloshin's War Poetry; A.M.Basom The Spirit of the Medieval in the Work of M.A. Voloshin; A.Gibson Imagery of War and Revolution in the Poetry of Voloshin and Mandelstam; N.Roklina PART II: THE POST-STALIN DECADES Introduction; K.Ryan The Rhythmical Composition of Doctor Zhivago; M.Langleben Coming to Terms: Ideology and Experience in Camp Literature; D.Tolczyk Sinyavsky and Vonnegut: The Themes of Displacement and Alienation; I.Szarycz Clash of Generations in Russian Literature: From Yurii Trifonov to Lyudmila Razumovskaya; A.Krzychlkiewicz The Artistic Evolution of Vladimir Makanin (1970s-1980s); E.A.Krasnostchekova Modest Platonovich in Bitov's Pushkin House: A Theory of History and Culture; H.Baker Sokolov's Palisandriya: The Art of History; K.Ryan Multiple Comic Coding: Comedy, Satire and Parody in the Strugatskys' Tale Monday Begins on Saturday; E.Z.Kozlowski The Seduction of the Story: Flight and 'Fall' in Tolstaya's Heavenly Flame; C.Nepomnyashchy More Than One: The Doubles in Brodsky's Poetic World; V.Polukhina Metafictional Strategies of Russian Post-modern Prose; N.Kolesnikoff Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature; A.Genis Nationalism in Literary Criticism in Russia Today; H.Mondry On the Nature of Russian Post-modernism; M.Lipovetsky Index

Über Autor(innen)

KAREN RYAN is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. Her work has appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals, including Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Literature, Canadian Slavonic Paper and Zeitschrift fur Slawistik. She is the author of two books: Russian Publicistic Satire Under Glasnost': The Journalistic Feuilleton and Contemporary Russian Satire: A Genre Study. She is author-editor of Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki: Critical Perspectives.BARRY SCHERR is the Mandel Family Professor of Russian and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His teaching interests include both nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, comparative literature, and film. He is the author of articles on Russian prose, Russian poetry of the Silver Age, verse theory, and other topics; among his books are Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme and, most recently, Maksim Gorky: Selected Letters, which he co-edited and co-translated with Andrew Barratt.