A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond by Dobrenko, Evgeny

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A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond by Dobrenko, Evgeny

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond

$60.00
A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond by Dobrenko, Evgeny

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond

$60.00
Format: Paperback
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This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas--political, intellectual, and institutional--the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. The chapters follow early movements such as formalism, the Bakhtin Circle, Proletklut, futurism, the fellow-travelers, and the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. By the cultural revolution of 1928, literary criticism became a mechanism of Soviet policies, synchronous with official ideology. The chapters follow theory and criticism into the 1930s with examinations of the Union of Soviet Writers, semantic paleontology, and socialist realism under Stalin. A more \u201chumanized\u201d literary criticism appeared during the ravaging years of World War II, only to be supplanted by a return to the party line, Soviet heroism, and anti-Semitism in the late Stalinist period. During Khrushchev s Thaw, there was a remarkable rise in liberal literature and criticism, that was later refuted in the nationalist movement of the \u201clong\u201d 1970s. The same decade saw, on the other hand, the rise to prominence of semiotics and structuralism. Postmodernism and a strong revival of academic literary studies have shared the stage since the start of the post-Soviet era. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in \u00e9migr\u00e9 literary theory and criticism.

Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
ISBN-10: 0822962861
ISBN-13: 9780822962861
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2013
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 1.00d
By Evgeny Dobrenko
By Evgeny Dobrenko
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Evgeny Dobrenko is professor and department head of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is author, editor, or coeditor of twenty books including The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953.

Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Master and the Slave: Luka'cs, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time and Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism.

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