Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicolosi, Riccardo.

Contributor:

Obermayr, Brigitte.

Series:

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action and adventure films--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Action and adventure films.

Adventure stories, Soviet--History and criticism.

Adventure stories, Soviet.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Motion pictures.

Politics and literature--Soviet Union.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2024.

Summary:

The book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arises from this unique historical constellation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introductory Remarks

Part A THEORY AND HI STORY OF ADVENTURE NARRATIVES IN THE EARLY SOVIET UNION (1920s–1930s )

CHAPTER 1 New Adventures for the Soviet Present. Conceptualizations and Debates Surrounding a Contested Popular Literary Genre

CHAPTER 2 “We Are Incapable of Creating the Simplest Criminal Plot . . .”: The Formalist Theory of Prose and Russian Experimental Adventure Literature of the 1920s

CHAPTER 3 Poetics of Adventure in the 1920s (from Shklovsky to Bakhtin)

CHAPTER 4 The Magic of Cinema: Vladimir Vainshtok and a Socialist Film Poetics of Adventure

Part B CASE STUDIES

CHAPTER 5 Munchhausen’s Adventures in Early Soviet Fiction

CHAPTER 6 Ostap Bender: From an Adventurer to a Bureaucrat. Transformations of the Early Soviet Rogue Narrative in The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931)

CHAPTER 7 Meta-Adventures: Vsevolod Ivanov’s and Viktor Shklovsky’s Novel Iprit in the Context of the Early Soviet Boom of Adventure Literature

CHAPTER 8 Leaping over Death: Adventurous Agency in Fyodor Gladkov’s Cement (1925)

CHAPTER 9 Andrei Platonov’s Novel Chevengur as a Journey of Adventure

CHAPTER 10 Revolutionary Adventures in China: Internationalism and Early Soviet Adventure Fiction

CHAPTER 11 Zinaida Rikhter’s Flight Adventure: An ‘Adventure Travel Sketch’

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798887196329

OCLC:

1460469865