On the Threshold of Eurasia : Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus / Leah Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Leah, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency in literature.

Poetics--History--20th century.

Poetics.

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

Russian literature.

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

Azerbaijani literature.

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

Caucasian literature.

Soviet Union--Relations--Caucasus.

Soviet Union.

Caucasus--Relations--Soviet Union.

Caucasus.

Russia--Relations--Caucasus.

Russia.

Caucasus--Relations--Russia.

Azerbaijan--Intellectual life--20th century.

Azerbaijan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet "East" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers.Tracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had-through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language -on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Heterodoxy and Heterology on the Threshold of Eurasia

Part I. Heterodoxy and Imperial Returns

1. Parodic and Messianic Genealogies: Reading Gogol in Azeri in the Late Imperial Caucasus

2. Aesthetics of Empathy: The Azeri Subject in Translations of Pushkin

Part II. Heterology and Utopian Futures

3. A Window onto the East: Baku's Avant-garde Poetics and the Translatio Imperii

4. Broken Verse: The Materiality of the Symbol in New Turkic Poetics

Postscript: Latinization and Refili's "The Window" onto Soviet Azerbaijan

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781501726514

150172651X

OCLC:

1022977704