The vortex that unites us : versions of totality in Russian literature

The vortex that unites us : versions of totality in Russian literature / Jacob Emery.

"This book is about the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into the totality of an artwork. The teeming and paradoxical diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canon, often in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reason, s...

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Main Author: Emery, Jacob, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Series:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subjects:
Russian literature > Themes, motives.
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.
Ideology in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Ideology in literature
Russian literature
Russian literature > Themes, motives
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:"This book is about the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into the totality of an artwork. The teeming and paradoxical diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canon, often in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reason, strive for the frontiers of space and time in order to guarantee the coherence of the globe and the continuity of history"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 217 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501769405
1501769405
9781501769399
1501769391
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 26, 2023).

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