Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History by Schmid, Wolf

Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631469408)

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Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History by Schmid, Wolf

Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History

$88.20
Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History by Schmid, Wolf

Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose: Postmodernism and the Quest for History

$88.20
Format: Paperback
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The question of postmodernism in Soviet literature during the period of stagnation is closely linked to the problem of history and its representation. In Andrej Bitov's prose, the intellectual's ambition to transcend the Stalinist past in order to reenter history at a point prior to trauma is mostly unsuccessful. Bitov's prose may be seen as a demonstration of the failure of modernist and pre-modernist models of mnemonic representation in the postmodern context of the Soviet Union. His characters' efforts to realign themselves with the modernist avantgarde routinely meet with the impossibility of establishing any viable metapositions vis-à-vis official culture and its ideology. The present study investigates the psychological, aesthetic, and epistemological implications of Bitov's postmodern treatment of memory.

Author: Wolf Schmid,Sven Spieker
ISBN-10: 3631469403
ISBN-13: 9783631469408
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1995
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
By Wolf Schmid
By Wolf Schmid
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The Author: Sven Spieker was born in Bonn, Germany in 1963. After studying in Bonn and London, he received his B.A. in Slavics from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London). He continued his studies at Merton College, Oxford, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He obtained his Ph.D from Oxford University in 1993. At present he teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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