The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story : A Critical Companion / Lyudmila Parts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parts, Lyudmila, Editor.

Series:

Cultural Revolutions : Russia in the Twentieth century

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Short stories, Russian--History and criticism.

Short stories, Russian--History and criticism--20th century.

Short stories, Russian.

Russian fiction--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

Local Subjects:

Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Short stories, Russian--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author's oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition / Parts, Lyudmila

I. "The Darling": Femininity Scorned and Desired / Evdokimova, Svetlana

II. Bunin's "Gentle Breath" / Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich

III. Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel / Maguire, Robert A.

IV. Zoshchenko's "Electrician," or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism / Zholkovsky, Alexander

V. Yury Olesha's Three Ages of Man: a Close Reading of "Liompa." / Barratt, Andrew

VI. Nabokov's Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in "Spring in Fialta" (1936-1947) / Foster, John Burt

VII. Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak / Björling, Fiona

VIII. Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire / Naiman, Eric

IX. "This Could Have Been Foreseen": Kharms's The Old Woman (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis / Milner-Gulland, Robin

X. Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk." / Toker, Leona

XI. The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents." / Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer

XII. Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Ignashev, Diane Nemec

XIII. Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse." / Greber, Erika

XIV. Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Parts, Lyudmila

XV. The Lady with the Dogs / Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila

XVI. Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet." / Lipovetsky, Mark

XVII. Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph." / Spieker, Sven

XVIII. The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Bogdanova, O.V.

WORKS CITED

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-016-0

OCLC:

1135594943