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Toxic voices : the villain from early Soviet literature to Socialist realism / Eric Laursen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laursen, Eric, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Russian literature and theory.
- Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Socialist realism in literature.
- Villains in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism.Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground.Instead, key strategies of each survive to sustain the villain of socialist realism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Scrounging in the Soviet garbage pit
- Writing a precarious balance
- He does not love us when we are dirty
- Things that should not be found
- Lost in translation
- Conclusion: Writers forward!.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-155) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6635-6
- OCLC:
- 867739728
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