{"product_id":"literary-theory-and-marxist-criticism-samiran-kumar-paul-9781649195487","title":"Literary Theory and Marxist Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Communist Party's attitude toward art in this period was, in general, epiphenomenal of its economic policy. A resolution of 1925 voiced the party's refusal to sanction anyone's literary faction. This reflected the New Economic Policy (NEP) of a limited free-market economy. The period of the First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) saw a more or less voluntary return to a more committed artistic posture, and during the second Five-Year Plan (1932-1936), this commitment was crystallized in the formation of a Writers' Union. The first congress of this union in 1934, featuring speeches by Maxim Gorky and Bukharin, officially adopted socialist realism, as defined primarily by Andrei Zhdanov (1896-1948). Aptly dubbed by Terry Eagleton as \"Stalin's cultural thug,\" it was Zhdanov whose proscriptive shadow thenceforward fell over Soviet cultural affairs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Nikolai Bukharin's speech at the congress had attempted a synthesis of Formalist and sociological attitudes, premised on his assertion that within \"the microcosm of the word is embedded the macrocosm of history,\" Bukharin was eventually to fall from his position as the leading theoretician of the party: his trial and execution, stemming from his political and economic differences with Stalin, were also symptomatic of the fact that Formalism soon became a sin once more. Bukharin had called for socialist realism to portray not reality \"as it is\" but rather as it exists in socialist imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samiran Kumar Paul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1649195486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781649195487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d","brand":"Samiran Kumar Paul","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067491873023,"sku":"9781649195487","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8d5791a-3cfe-40b9-97ef-cfaa366bc813.jpg?v=1685413554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literary-theory-and-marxist-criticism-samiran-kumar-paul-9781649195487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}