From symbolism to socialist realism : a reader / compiled, edited and with introductions by Irene Masing-Delic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masing-Delic, I. (Irene)

Series:

Cultural Syllabus

Cultural syllabus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Socialist realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Developed as a reader for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduates, From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at this level. These approaches range from critical-theoretical articles, cultural and historical analyses, literary manifestos and declarations of literary aesthetics, memoirs of revolutionary terrorism and arrests by the NKVD, political denunciations, and "literary vignettes" capturing the spirit of its particular time in a nutshell. The voices of this "polyphonic" reader are diverse: Briusov, Savinkov, Ivanov-Razumnik, Kollontai, Tsvetaeva, Shklovsky, Olesha, Zoshchenko, Zhdanov, Grossman, Evtushenko, and others. The range of specialists on Russian culture represented here is equally broad: Clark, Erlich, Grossman, Nilsson, Peace, Poznansky, Siniavskii, and others. Together they evoke and illuminate a complex and tragic era.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Section One. Russian Culture before the October Revolution

Introduction

Historical-Cultural Contexts

Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905 / Sablinsky, Walter

The Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei / Savinkov, Boris

Modernist Views on Art in Essays and Manifestos, Criticism

Keys to the Mysteries / Briusov, Valerii

Two Tendencies of Contemporary Lyric Poetry / Zhirmunsk, Viktor

Art as Technique / Shklovskii, Viktor

Slap in the Face of Public Taste / Burliuk, David / Kruchenykh, Aleksandr / Maiakovskii, Vladimir / Khlebnikov, Viktor

Declaration of TransrationaL Language / Kruchenykh, Aleksandr

"The Cherry Orchard" / Peace, Richard

'The Marble Bust' and Briusov's Vision of Art / Delaney Grossman, Joan

Vignettes

The Marble Bust: A Tramp's Story / Briusov, Valerii

The Stranger / Blok, Aleksandr

When in a Suicidal Anguish / Akhmatova, Anna

The Lost Streetcar / Gumilev, Nikolai

Section Two. From Civil War to Stalinism via Nep

Everyday Life: Reality and Dreams

Attic Life / Tsvetaeva, Marina

Make way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working youth Love as a Socio-psychological Factor / Kollontai, Aleksandra

The New Way of Life / Siniavskii, Andrei

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters / Zamiatin, Evgenii

Literary Criticism

Zamyatin's WE, the Proletarian Poets and Bogdanov's Red Star / Lewis, Kathleen / Weber, Harry

Bright Hopes and Dark Insights / Masing-Delic, Irene

Bulgakov's Early Tragedy of the Scientist-Creator: An Interpretation of The Heart of a Dog / Burgin, Diana L.

The Masks of Mikhail Zoshchenko / Erlich, Victor

Through the Wrong End of Binoculars: An Introduction to Iurii Olesha / Nilsson, Nils Åke

Two Plays / Brown, Edward J.

Brothers, Let's Glorify the Twilight of Freedom / Mandel'shtam, Osip

A Dogged Sense of Smell / Zoshchenko, Mikhail

Nervous People / Zoshchenko, Mikhail

Brooklyn Bridge / Maiakovskii, Vladimir

Section Three. The Stalinist Period and World War II

Memoirs

1930: How Meierkhol'd Put on My Play / Olesha, Iurii

Ivanov-Razumnik, from The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik / Razumnik, Ivanov

Antonina Pirozhkova, from At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel / Pirozhkova, Antonina

Cultural Contexts

The Mystery and the Magic of Stalin's Power / Siniavskii, Andrei

The Tower of Babel Undone in a Soviet Pentecost / Collins, Daniel E.

Tchaikovsky as Communist Icon / Poznansky, Alexander

Power Relationships and Authorship / Holmgren, Beth

Soviet Labor Camps: A Brief History / Toker, Leona

Socialist Realism

Soviet Literature / Gor'kii, Maksim

Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature / Clark, Katerina

The Typology of the Nonexistent / Groys, Boris

War Diary

Excerpts / Grossman, Vasilii

We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange / Mandel'shtam, Osip

Russia, Our Happiness. Russia, Our Light / Ivanov, Georgii

This Thing Called Homesickness! A Fable / Tsvetaeva, Marina

No Matter How the Soviet Tinsel Glitters / Nabokov, Vladimir

Song about our Motherland / Lebedev-Kumach, Vasilii

A Word to Comrade Stalin / Isakovskii, Mikhail

Epilogue. After WWII and after Stalin

Comments on the Epilogue Selections

A Denunciation

The Central Committee Resolution on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad / Zhdanov, Andrei

Memoir

Evgenii Evtushenko, from Yevtushenko's Reader: The Spirit of Elbe; A Precocious Autobiography; Poems / Evtushenko, Evgenii

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61811-144-2

OCLC:

966100655