Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union

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A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

The Soviet Age and Beyond
This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and ...
Other Animals

Other Animals

Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History
The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters probe a range of ...
How the Soviet Man Was Unmade

How the Soviet Man Was Unmade

Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity under Stalin
In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the ...

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