Russian postmodernism : new perspectives on post-Soviet culture

Russian postmodernism : new perspectives on post-Soviet culture / Mikhail Epstein, Alexander Genis, and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover ; translated by Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Mikhail
Other Authors: Genis, Aleksandr, 1953-, Vladiv-Glover, Slobodanka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Slavic Literature, Culture & Society.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Soviet Union.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Russia (Federation)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Russian literature
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction: ""New Sectarianism"" and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture; Part I
  • The Making of Russian Postmodernism; Chapter 1
  • The Dialectics of Hyper: From Modernism to Postmodernism; Chapter 2
  • Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art; Chapter 3
  • The 1960s and the Rediscovery of the Other in Russian Culture; Chapter 4
  • Perestroika as a Shift in Literary Paradigm; Part II
  • Manifestos of Russian Postmodernism; Chapter 5
  • Theses on Metarealism and Conceptualism.
  • Chapter 6
  • On Olga Sedakova and Lev RubinshteinChapter 7
  • What Is Metarealism? Facts and Hypotheses; Chapter 8
  • What Is a Metabole? (On the Third Trope); Chapter 9
  • Like a Corpse in the Desert: Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry; Chapter 10
  • A Catalogue of New Poetries; Chapter 11
  • Essayism: An Essay on the Essay; Chapter 12
  • The Ecology of Thinking; Chapter 13
  • Minimal Religion; Chapter 14
  • The Age of Universalism; Chapter 15
  • The Paradox of Acceleration; Part III
  • Socialist Realism and Postmodernism; Chapter 16
  • Archaic Postmodernism: The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky.
  • Chapter 17
  • Postmodernism and Sots-Realism: From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir SorokinChapter 18
  • Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature; Part IV
  • Conceptualism; Chapter 19
  • The New Model of Discourse in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction: Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia; Chapter 20
  • Heterogeneity and the Russian Post-Avant-Garde: The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin; Chapter 21
  • Emptiness as a Technique: Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov; Chapter 22
  • The Philosophical Implications of Russian Conceptualism.
  • Part V
  • Postmodernism and SpiritualityChapter 23
  • Post-Atheism: From Apophatic Theology to Minimal Religion
  • Chapter 24
  • Onions and Cabbages: Paradigms of Contemporary Culture; Chapter 25
  • Charms of Entropy and New Sentimentality: The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev; Conclusion: On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity; Select Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

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