Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism by Laursen, Eric

Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810128651)

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Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism by Laursen, Eric

Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism

$45.00
Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism by Laursen, Eric

Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground. Instead, key strategies of each survive to sustain the villain of socialist realism. Laursen argues that the judgment of satire and the hesitation associated with the fantastic produce a narrative obsession with controlling the villain's influence. In identifying a crucial connection between the questioning, subversive literature of the 1920s and the socialist realists, Laursen produces an insightful revision of Soviet literary history.

Author: Eric Laursen
ISBN-10: 0810128659
ISBN-13: 9780810128651
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2013
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By Eric Laursen
By Eric Laursen
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Eric Laursen is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah.

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