World Literature in the Soviet Union.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tihanov, Galin.

Contributor:

Lounsbery, Anne.

Djagalov, Rossen.

Series:

Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is the first volume to reconstruct and examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives (intellectual history; literary history and theory; comparative literature; translation studies; diaspora studies); the book is a vital contribution to current debates on world literature in and beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological Horizons

CHAPTER 2 On the Worldliness of Russian Literature

CHAPTER 3 Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping It in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist Contexts

CHAPTER 4 The Roles of Form and Content in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post- Revolutionary Years

CHAPTER 5 The Treasure Trove of World Literature: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia

CHAPTER 6 The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet History

CHAPTER 7 International Literature: A Multi-language Soviet Journal as a Model of World Literature of the Mid-1930s USSR

CHAPTER 8 Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the West

CHAPTER 9 World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist Realism

CHAPTER 10 Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers Association (19581991) and Its Literary Field

CHAPTER 11 Can Worldliness Be Inscribed into the Literary Text? : Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature

Contributors

Index

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Other Format:

Print version: Tihanov, Galin World Literature in the Soviet Union

ISBN:

9798887194165

OCLC:

1428235529