Russian postmodernist fiction : dialogue with chaos
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Russian postmodernist fiction : dialogue with chaos
M.E. Sharpe, c1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-271) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction: Postmodernism, Duty-Free Eliot Borenstein I. Introduction 1. Chaos as a System Dialogue with Chaos as a New Artistic Strategy II. Culture as Chaos 2. Sacking the Museum: Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House 3. From an Otherwordly Point of View: Venedikt Erofeev' s Moscow to the End of the Line 4. The Myth of Metamorphosis: Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools 5. Active Nonbeing III. The Poetics of Chaosmos 6. Context: Soviet Utopia 7. Context: Mythologies of Creation 8. Context: Mythologies of History 9. Context: Mythologies of the Absurd 10. Famous Last Words IV. Conclusion 11. On the Nature of Russian Postmodernism
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