Reconstructing the Canon

Reconstructing the Canon
Author: Arnold Barrett McMillin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789057025938

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Author: Charles Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1992-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521425674

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

Everything is Normal

Everything is Normal
Author: Sergey Grechishkin
Publisher: Inkshares
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1942645910

Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm’s-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and ’80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history—a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR. Sergey Grechishkin’s world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up—to read Everything is Normal is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past.

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2011-11-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822977443

This edited 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 structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. The chapters follow early movements such as formalism, the Bakhtin Circle, Proletklut, futurism, the fellow-travelers, and the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. By the cultural revolution of 1928, literary criticism became a mechanism of Soviet policies, synchronous with official ideology. The chapters follow theory and criticism into the 1930s with examinations of the Union of Soviet Writers, semantic paleontology, and socialist realism under Stalin. A more "humanized" literary criticism appeared during the ravaging years of World War II, only to be supplanted by a return to the party line, Soviet heroism, and anti-Semitism in the late Stalinist period. During Khrushchev's Thaw, there was a remarkable rise in liberal literature and criticism, that was later refuted in the nationalist movement of the "long" 1970s. The same decade saw, on the other hand, the rise to prominence of semiotics and structuralism. Postmodernism and a strong revival of academic literary studies have shared the stage since the start of the post-Soviet era. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in emigre literary theory and criticism.

A History of Russian Literature

A History of Russian Literature
Author: Andrew Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1202
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192549537

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day. The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and personal. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular brings out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139828231

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Nri

Nri
Author: Amar Vyas
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781502318589

Moving back to India was the last thing on Amol Dixit's mind when he was leading a carefree life in Chicago. Then one day, he found himself sleeping on the streets of Mumbai. Now, Returned to India is a Back-to-Rags story of a Non Resident Indian (NRI), and is a humorous account of the experiences of Amol Dixit, who relocates to India in haste. It all begins when he interviews for a job that he doesn't really need. He plans to spend one year with his family in India, following which he would move back to North America. In a series of missteps which affect his personal, social and work life, and cost him the woman he loves, Amol learns the hard way that living in India is no cakewalk. Inspite of these challenges, he decides to remain in India. Just when his life has hit rock bottom, GB enters his life. NRI: Now, Returned to India, is the first book in a four part fiction series that deals with the life of Amol Dixit and is the author's debut novel. It was shortlisted by DNA- Hachette in India for the "Hunt for the Next Bestseller" competition in 2014. Amar' spast writing exploits include blogging about his experiences in India at the Return to India Forum, which have received over 110,000 views.

Soviet Samizdat

Soviet Samizdat
Author: Ann Komaromi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501763601

Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Ann Komaromi analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens. Dissidence has been dismissed as an elite phenomenon or as insignificant because it had little demonstrable impact on the Soviet regime. Komaromi challenges these views and demonstrates that the kind of imagination about self and community made possible by samizdat could be a powerful social force. She explains why participants in samizdat culture so often sought to divide "political" from "cultural" samizdat. Her study provides a controversial umbrella definition for all forms of samizdat in terms of truth-telling, arguing that the act is experienced as transformative by Soviet authors and readers. This argument will challenge scholars in the field to respond to contentions that go against the grain of both anthropological and postmodern accounts. Komaromi's combination of literary analysis, historical research, and sociological theory makes sense of the phenomenon of samizdat for readers today. Soviet Samizdat shows that samizdat was not simply a tool of opposition to a defunct regime. Instead, samizdat fostered informal communities of knowledge that foreshadowed a similar phenomenon of alternative perspectives challenging the authority of institutions around the world today.

Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1020
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134260776

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.