The Soviet novel : history as ritual / Katerina Clark.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clark, Katerina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.
Edition:	3rd ed.
Subjects:	Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Socialist realism in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Distinctive Role of Socialist Realism in Soviet Culture
I. Socialist Realism before 1932. 1. What Socialist Realism Is and What Led to Its Adoption as the Official Method of Soviet Literature. 2. The Positive Hero in Pre-revolutionary Fiction. 3. Socialist Realist Classics of the Twenties
II. High Stalinist Culture. 4. The Machine and the Garden: Literature and Metaphors for the New Society. 5. The Stalinist Myth of the "Great Family" 6. The Sense of Reality in the Heroic Age
III. An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel. 7. The Prototypical Plot. 8. Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual Sacrifice
IV. Soviet Fiction since World War II. 9. The Postwar Stalin Period (1944-53). 10. The Khrushchev Years.

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