Chapaev and his comrades : war and the Russian literary hero across the twentieth century

Chapaev and his comrades : war and the Russian literary hero across the twentieth century / Angela Brintlinger.

"Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text Brintlinger traces the war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brintlinger, Angela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, ©2012.
©2012
Series:Cultural revolutions.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
War stories, Russian > History and criticism.
War in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature
War in literature
War stories, Russian
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : war and the hero in the Russian twentieth century
  • Part I. Creating heroes from chaos
  • Born in the crucible of war : Chapaev and his socialist realist comrades
  • Part II. World War II and the hero
  • The peasant-soldier : Alexander Tvardovsky and a new Chapaev
  • Eyewitnesses to heroism : Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova
  • Retreat : Viktor Nekrasov and the truth of the trenches
  • Part III. Cold War repercussions
  • From World War to Cold War : Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and heroism in the post-Stalin period
  • Antiheroes in a post-heroic age : Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, and Cold War malaise
  • Part IV. Chapaev and war : Russian redux
  • Revisiting war : Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24
  • Revisiting Chapaev : Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov
  • Afterword.

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