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Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia : The Secret Order of Shandeans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budrin, Peter.
- Series:
- Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters set within wider biographical, cultural, and institutional contexts, it analyses Sterne's reception as a reflection of the larger history of the survival of intellectual autonomy in early Soviet Russia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia : The Secret Order of Shandeans
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Institutions
- Book titles
- Note on Conventions
- Introduction Soviet Readers of Sterne, 1917-1941
- 'Soviet' Sterne?
- The Revolutionary of Form
- Beyond Shklovsky: Sterne and the 1930s
- Sterne in Russia before 1917
- Structure
- PART I: Editions and Circulation
- 1: Laurence Sterne and Soviet Publishing
- Noah's Ark: Sterne in Gorky's Vsemirnaya Literatura
- The Works of Sterne : Academia 's Interrupted Project
- 2: A Sentimental Journey in Stalin's Russia: Approaches and Editions
- Nikolai Feofilaktov's A Sentimental Journey (1934)
- Sterne and (Self-)Censorship: Ogonek 's Bowdlerization (1935)
- Sterne, the 'Fellow Traveller' (Goslitizdat, 1935)
- The 'Rehabilitation' of Sterne (Goslitizdat, 1940)
- Soviet Readers and A Sentimental Journey
- PART II: Ways of Reading
- 3: Sterne and Shklovsky, Revisited
- Shklovsky's Tristram Shandy : Promotion through Provocation
- Decontextualizing Sterne
- The Shandean Collage
- Novels Not About Love: Shklovsky's Zoo and Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
- Eliza in A Sentimental Journey
- Letters, Reputations, and Literary Myths
- 'Six Shirts and a Pair of Breeches'
- Coda: Sternianstvo after the 1920s
- 4: The Learned Readers Translating Sterne in Stalin's Russia
- 'Inner form of wit': Gustav Shpet Reads Tristram Shandy
- Shpet's Translation Drafts
- Shpet's Notes
- Adrian Frankovskii's Ivory Tower
- In Search of the Language of Thought
- Bergsonian Proust, Lockean Sterne
- 5: On the Red Hobby Horse: Sterne and Soviet Critics in the 1930s
- Izrail Vertsman: Against Schematism
- Sternean Dialectics
- Between Rousseau and Sterne: Letters to Vladimir Grib.
- Stepan Babookh: Worker, Revolutionary, and Literary Critic
- English Books in an English Prison
- The Critic's Sympathies
- The Squiggle of Life
- Coda: The (Non)Sense of History
- Epilogue 'In the House of Bondage'
- Bibliography
- Key archival sources
- Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library, Moscow
- Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow
- Central State Archive of Literature and Art, St Petersburg
- Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature, St Petersburg
- Secondary literature
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-894177-3
- 0-19-894176-5
- 9780198941767
- OCLC:
- 1581199962
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