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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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the totalities of Russian literature
  • Versions of possession: ghost, demon, idea, discourse
  • The epidemic: the infectious imagination of Leo Tolstoy
  • The panorama: world Literature and universal language
  • The orchestra: dictation and dictatorship
  • The market: Humbert Humbert as mad man.

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