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The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Buckler, Julie A.
Contributor:: Weir, Justin.
Series:: Oxford Handbooks Series
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (757 pages)
Edition:: 1st ed.
Place of Publication:: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.
Summary:: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel brings together top specialists in Russian literature to treat the Russian novel from the late 18th to the 21st century, using a range of interpretive perspectives. The Russian novel is a distinctive tradition by virtue of its formal eccentricities, as well as the boldness with which these works approached the most complex philosophical, political, and moral questions. This Handbook treats well-known works and authors but also explores the much broader tradition of the Russian novel up to the present. The essays in the Handbook provide cultural and historical perspectives on the Russian novel, as well as showcasing emergent modes of analysis, including postcolonialism, ecocriticism, and posthumanism.
Contents:: Cover; Half Titled; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Introduction; Overview of the Handbook Contents; Part I: The History of the Russian Novel; Part II: Theories of the Novel and the Russian Tradition; Part III: Geographies and Cultural Spaces in the Russian Novel; Part IV: Modes of Understanding and Experience in the Russian Novel; Part V: Ideologies in Novel Form; Part VI: Worlding the Russian Novel; The Novel as Literary Genre; The Novel in Russia; The Russian Novel in the Twentieth Century; Russian Novels After 1989; What Counts as a Russian Novel?; Part I The History of the Russian Novel; Chapter 1 First Novels, First Publics; Fictions of Mobility, Fictions of Sensibility; On Reception: Readers, Critics, Publics; "First" Novels, Contemporary and Scholarly Readers; Chapter 2 Russian Novelists and the Mind of Europe; Influence and Individuality; The Influence of Faust; Russia Joins World Literature: Pushkin's Faust; Faust in Russia: German Philosophy Meets Russian Poetry; Faust and Nihilism: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; Faust at a Rendezvous; The Modernist Faust; The Revolution and the Soviet Epoch; Chapter 3 The Noncanonical Status of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel; Canonicity and the Novel; Institutional Factors in the Noncanonical Status of Russian Fiction; The Emerging Canonical Status of the Russian Novel; Three Illustrative Failed Candidates for Canonization; Chapter 4 The Russian Novel in the Age of Modernism; Andrei Bely's Petersburg; Evgeny Zamiatin's We; Yuri Olesha's Envy; Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit; Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Soviet Novel as a Work of Grief.; Socialist Realism and the Derealization of Trauma: Between Denial and Anger; Realism and Working Through Trauma: Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance; Epicization of Trauma in the Post-Traumatic Novel; Chapter 6 The Russian Postmodernist Novel: An Attempt at Typology; The Post-Metaphysical Novel; Historiographic Metafiction; The Retrofuturist Novel; The Autofictional Novel; Constructive Tropes of Postmodernist Novels; Chapter 7 The Contemporary Russian Novel; The Historiographic Turn; Literature and the Archive; The Personal and the Political; Metafiction Across Genre; Russia and the World; Chapter 8 Svetlana Alexievich and the Novel Tradition; Literary Genre and Readerly Expectations; The Unwomanly Face of War and Authorial Identity; Zinky Boys and Authorial Ethics; War Stories and the Truth; Part II Theories of the Novel and the Russian Tradition; Chapter 9 Russian Formalism and the Novel; Early Formalist Theory and the Avant-Garde; Prose Devices in Formalist Theory; The Novel as System in Formalist Theory; Stalinist Repression and Late Formalism; Novels By Russian Formalists; Chapter 10 The Word About the Word: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel; Introduction: The Prehistory; Intention, Inner Dialogism, Heteroglossia; Centrifugal and Centripetal Verbal Energies; Self-Consciousness of the Novel; The Novel's Archaic Core; Laughter and Contemporaneity; The Ethics of the Novel I: The Lie; The Ethics of the Novel II: Parody and Ridicule; The Persistence of the Subject; Escape From Violence; Inescapable Violence; Conclusion: The Post History; Chapter 11 Mind Games: On Psychology in the Russian Novel; Gogol, the Natural School, and the "Little Man"; Dostoevsky as Diagnostician: Anti-Social Personality Disorder.; Another Bifurcated Personality: Tolstoy's Rendition of a Woman's Fate; Nabokov the Magician, and Master Psychologist; Bulgakov's Master: The Devil Comes to Moscow; One Man, One Day: Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Petrushevskaya's Dark Night; The Social and the Psychological in the Russian Novel; Chapter 12 An Uneasy Compact: The Russian Novel as Philosophy; War and Peace; Notes From Underground; We; Laughter in the Dark; The Infinite Genre?; Chapter 13 Ethics and the Russian Novel; Two Traditions; The Intelligentsia; Theoretism; Maximalism; Denying Individuality; Judging Literature; The Novel and Casuistry; How Novels Test Ideas; The Non-Alibi; Beyond Imaginary Knowledge; Part III Geographies and Cultural Spaces in the Russian Novel; Chapter 14 Empire and the Russian Novel; Novels of the Golden Age; Midcentury Realist Novels; Late Tsarist-Era Novels; Chapter 15 Nature in the Russian Novel; Charmed Circles and the Escape to Nature; Predation and the State; Rereading Traditions in a Time of Environmental Crisis; Novels, Nature, and the Need for Air; Chapter 16 Siberia and the Queerness of the Russian Novel; Siberia as an Imagined Space; Dostoevsky and Siberia; Tolstoy and Siberia; Chapter 17 Escape Vehicles: Yiddish and the Russian Novel; The Mendele Model; Russian-Yiddish Novels After Abramovich; Yiddish in Russian-Language Novels; Translation of Novels Between Russian and Yiddish; Chapter 18 Race, Ethnicity, and the Russian Novel; The Inheritance of the Nineteenth Century; Petersburg and Imperial Heterogeneity; Representing Ethnic Nationalities After the Revolution; Race and Ethnicity at Midcentury and Beyond; After the Fall; Part IV Modes of Understanding and Experience in the Russian Novel; Chapter 19 Seeing the (Russian) Novel.; Was Tolstoy a Visual Writer?; Lessons From a Failed Künstlerroman; Visionaries; The (Un)exceptionalism of Russian Vision; Chapter 20 The Haunted House: Spiritualism and the Realist Novel; Realist Exorcism; The Battle for the Soul; Leo Tolstoy: Psychological Spiritualism; Dostoevsky: Ontological Realism; Saltykov-Shchedrin: Spectralized Materialism; Chapter 21 Bodily Expression, Gesture, and Knowledge in the Russian Novel; Gogol; Tolstoy and Dostoevsky; Bely; Revolution and the Body; Chapter 22 Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy: Children and Animals; Turgenev; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy; Chapter 23 Coping With Matter in the Russian Novel: Anatomists, Alchemists, Geologists, and Collectors; What Is the Matter With Turgenev's Fathers and Children?; The Romantic Secret of Matter: Odoevsky's Russian Nights; From Postmortem to Alchemy: The Novels of Dostoevsky, Sologub, Platonov; The Geological Cross Section of Matter in Socialist Realism; Traces of Matter in Modernism; Chapter 24 Dostoevsky's Depth Theology; The Idiot: "Light Vs. Darkness" Revisited; Modernity as Amnesia, Groundlessness; Toward the Figure in the Depths; Twilight of the Idols: Mother-Goddess, Wonder-Worker, Architect; Opiates of the Intelligentsia; Chapter 25 Grotesque Fictions: Posthumanism and the Novel; Novelistic Hybridity; Nineteenth-Century Interrogations of the Human; Early-Twentieth-Century Science Fiction and the Radical Enhancement of the Human; Posthumanism in Late- and Post-Soviet Postmodernism; The Body in Contemporary Cyberpunk and Biopunk; Part V Ideologies in Novel Form; Chapter 26 Why Don't We Read Them? The Underwater Corpus of Nineteenth-Century Russian Realist Novels; Canonical and Semi-Canonical Nineteenth-Century Russian Realist Novels: A Brief Overview.; Forgotten Russian Realist Authors and Their Lost Novels; Periodization: 1880s-1890s; Writing Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary History; Case Study #1: Lydia Veselitskaya's Mimochka Trilogy; Case Study #2: Alexander Ertel's The Gardenins; Why Don't We Read Them?; Chapter 27 The Woman Question: Learned Noblewomen Writers; The Study of Russian Women Novelists; Europe's Querelle Des Femmes Arrives in Eighteenth-Century Russia; Russian Heroines and Women Writers; Russia's Learned Women Come Into Their Own; Chapter 28 Crime and Terrorism in the Russian Novel; The Aesthetics and Ethics of Crime; Economics and Crime; Gender Politics and Crime; Political Crime; Dostoevsky's Legacy; Coda: What Russian Novels Say About Crime Today; Chapter 29 Seriousness, Humor, and the Contradictions of Late Socialism; History, Repeated; The Stalinist Legacy and the Contradictions of the Late Soviet Hero; Dissenting Novels Beyond Ideology; Part VI Worlding the Russian Novel; Chapter 30 The Russian Novel in English Translation; The History of the Russian Novel in English Translation; Publishing Soviet Literature at Penguin, Progress, and Ardis; Post-Soviet Trends in Publishing the Russian Novel; What Is the Future for the Russian Novel in English Translation?; Chapter 31 Russian Novels of the Émigré Everyday; Émigrés and the Everyday; Ekaterina Bakunina; Gaito Gazdanov; Vladimir Nabokov; Chapter 32 Global Cooling: Vladimir Nabokov From the Fluid Transnationalism of Ada to the Frigid Poetics of Transparent Things; Nabokov and Transnational Literature; Reducing the Flow; The Discourse of Frigidity; The Poetics of Frigidity; Transnational Literature's Dead End; Chapter 33 First as Comedy, Then as Nationalism: The Immigrant Post-Soviet Novel Between America and Israel.; Ironic Cosmopolitanism of the 1990s: Dina Rubina and Gary Shteyngart.
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ISBN:: 0-19-752088-X; 0-19-752087-1; 0-19-752086-3; 9780197520864
OCLC:: 1528507977

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