Russian classical literature today : the challenges/trials Messianism and mass culture / edited by Yordan Lyutskanov, Hristo Manolakev and Radostin Rusev ; Olga Bagdasaryan [and twenty eight others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li︠u︡t︠s︡kanov, Ĭordan, editor.

Manolakev, Khristo, editor.

Rusev, Radostin, editor.

Bagdasaryan, Olga, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric culture that has been imbued with specific messianism and its doubles. The book implements Pierre Bourdieu''s theory of the cultural field, focusing on a field''s constitutive pursuit of autonomy and on its flexible resistance to the double pressure of the political field and the economic field. It pr

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION;

CONCLUSION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX OF NAMES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6182-0

OCLC:

891356252