Twentieth-century Russian literature : selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies / edited by Karen L. Ryan and Barry P. Scherr.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ryan, Karen L., 1958-

Scherr, Barry P.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Conference Name:

World Congress for Central and East European Studies (5th : 1995 : Warsaw, Poland)

Series:

Selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Russian literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 348 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

All of the essays in this volume treat 20th-century Russian literature. In the first section there are several articles on authors and works dating from the early part of the century; the second section is comprised of articles on works written between Stalin's death and the present day. The volume represents a wide diversity of critical approaches; contributors include scholars from North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Contents:

Part I The Early Decades

2. From the Finland Station: Ivan Konevskoi / Joan Delaney Grossman 6

3. Early Twentieth-Century Best-sellers and the Aesthetics of 'Mass' Consciousness / Alla Gracheva 16

4. Shadow Narratives and the Novel: The Role of Rybin in Gorky's Mother / Barry P. Scherr 25

5. The City as Framed Spectacle in the Works of Elena Guro / Milica Banjanin 42

6. 'Apollion' and 'Voina': History and the Angel of Destruction in Voloshin's War Poetry / Ann Marie Basom 58

7. The Spirit of the Medieval in the Work of M.A. Voloshin / Aleksey Gibson 77

8. Imagery of War and Revolution in the Poetry of Voloshin and Mandelstam / Natalie Roklina 96

Part II The Post-Stalin Decades

10. The Rhythmical Composition of Doctor Zhivago / Maria Langleben 126

11. Coming to Terms: Ideology and Experience in Camp Literature / Dariusz Tolczyk 152

12. Sinyavsky and Vonnegut: The Themes of Displacement and Alienation / Ireneusz Szarycz 164

13. Clash of Generations in Russian Literature: From Yurii Trifonov to Lyudmila Razumovskaya / Agata Krzychylkiewicz 180

14. The Artistic Evolution of Vladimir Makanin (1970s-1980s) / Elena Krasnostchekova 193

15. Modest Platonovich in Bitov's Pushkin House: A Theory of History and Culture / Harold D. Baker 206

16. Sokolov's Palisandriya: The Art of History / Karen Ryan 215

17. Multiple Comic Coding: Comedy, Satire and Parody in the Strugatskys' Tale Monday Begins on Saturday / Eugene Zeb Kozlowski 228

18. The Seduction of the Story: Flight and 'Fall' in Tolstaya's 'Heavenly Flame' / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy 239

19. More Than One: The Doubles in Brodsky's Poetic World / Valentina Polukhina 257

20. Metafictional Strategies of Russian Post-modern Prose / Nina Kolesnikoff 280

21. Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature / Alexander Genis 294

22. Nationalism in Literary Criticism in Russia Today / Henrietta Mondry 307

23. On the Nature of Russian Post-modernism / Mark Lipovetsky 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

031223418X

0333791827

OCLC:

43561928