Russian postmodernism : new perspectives on post-Soviet culture / Mikhail Epstein, Aleksandr Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Mikhail.

Contributor:

Genis, Aleksandr, 1953-

Vladiv-Glover, Slobodanka.

Epstein, Thomas.

Series:

Slavic Literature, Culture and Society

Slavic Literature, Culture and Society ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Russian literature.

Postmodernism (Literature)--Soviet Union.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Postmodernism (Literature)--Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (601 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 1999.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction: "New Sectarianism" and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture

Part I - The Making of Russian Postmodernism

Chapter 1 - The Dialectics of Hyper: From Modernism to Postmodernism

Chapter 2 - Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art

Chapter 3 - The 1960s and the Rediscovery of the Other in Russian Culture

Chapter 4 - Perestroika as a Shift in Literary Paradigm

Part II - Manifestos of Russian Postmodernism

Chapter 5 - Theses on Metarealism and Conceptualism

Chapter 6 - On Olga Sedakova and Lev Rubinshtein

Chapter 7 - What Is Metarealism? Facts and Hypotheses

Chapter 8 - What Is a Metabole? (On the Third Trope)

Chapter 9 - Like a Corpse in the Desert: Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry

Chapter 10 - A Catalogue of New Poetries

Chapter 11 - Essayism: An Essay on the Essay

Chapter 12 - The Ecology of Thinking

Chapter 13 - Minimal Religion

Chapter 14 - The Age of Universalism

Chapter 15 - The Paradox of Acceleration

Part III - Socialist Realism and Postmodernism

Chapter 16 - Archaic Postmodernism: The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky

Chapter 17 - Postmodernism and Sots-Realism: From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin

Chapter 18 - Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature

Part IV - Conceptualism

Chapter 19 - The New Model of Discourse in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction: Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia

Chapter 20 - Heterogeneity and the Russian Post-Avant-Garde: The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin

Chapter 21 - Emptiness as a Technique: Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov

Chapter 22 - The Philosophical Implications of Russian Conceptualism

Part V - Postmodernism and Spirituality.

Chapter 23 - Post-Atheism: From Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion

Chapter 24 - Onions and Cabbages: Paradigms of Contemporary Culture

Chapter 25 - Charms of Entropy and New Sentimentality: The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev

Conclusion: On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity

Select Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Epstein, Mikhail N. Russian Postmodernism

ISBN:

1-78238-865-6

1-57181-098-6

OCLC:

947128102