Discontinuous discourses in modern Russian literature

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Discontinuous discourses in modern Russian literature

edited by Catriona Kelly, Michael Makin, and David Shepherd

Macmillan, 1989

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This collection of eight essays reassess Russian literature, paying particular attention to writings by women and to popular culture, and challenge conventional readings of the Russian "great tradition". The status of the literary canon is questioned and the position of the critic re-evaluated. The radical standpoint of the eight writers takes its orientation in particular from the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and from western feminism.

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  • Part 1 Theory: Bakhtin, Benjamin, Sartre - toward a typology of the intellectual cultural critic, D.Polan
  • dialogism as a challenge to literary criticism, K.Hirschkop. Part 2 Textuality: canon fodder? - problems in the reading of a Soviet production novel, D.Shepherd
  • toward a poetics of the absurd - the prose writings of Daniil Kharms, A.Shukman
  • Petrushka and the pioneers - the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre after the revolution. Part 3 Sexuality: text and violence in Tsvetaeva's "Molodets", M.Makin
  • radical sentimentalism or sentimental radicalism? - a feminist approach to 18th century Russian literature, J.Andrew
  • men who give birth - a feminist perspective on Russian literature, B.Heldt.

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