Soviet heroic poetry in context : folklore or fakelore / Margaret Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Soviet--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Soviet.

Folklore in literature.

Heroes in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2013.

Summary:

Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny ("new songs"), have often been the subject of folkloristic controversy. This study tells the story of the rise and fall of the noviny in all its cultural richness and pathos, an instructive tale of the interaction of aesthetics and ideology.

Contents:

Tampering with the folkloric evidence: famous and infamous European precedents

Oral composition: early Russian observations and assumptions

Engaging with the folk in pre-revolutionary Russia

The making of the noviny

The poetics and politics of the noviny

Devaluing the noviny

Late and post-Soviet folkloristic assessment of the noviny

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61149-763-9

1-61149-651-9

1-61149-457-5