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Author Epstein, Mikhail.

Title Russian postmodernism : new perspectives on post-Soviet culture / Mikhail Epstein, Alexander Genis, and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover ; translated by Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Edition Second edition
Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Slavic Literature, Culture & Society ; v. 3
Slavic Literature, Culture & Society
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Genis, Aleksandr, 1953-
Vladiv-Glover, Slobodanka.
ISBN 1782388656
9781782388654