| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 359 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century |
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Cultural revolutions.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition / Lyudmila Parts -- Chekhov's "The Darling": Femininity Scorned and Desired / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Bunin's "Gentle Breath" / Lev Vygotsky -- Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel ("Pan Apolek," "My First Goose") -- Robert Maguire -- Zoshchenko's "Electrician," or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism / Aleksander Zholkovsky -- Yury Olesha's Three Ages of Man: A Close Reading of "Liompa" / Andrew Barratt -- Nabokov's Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in "Spring in Fialta" (1936-1947) / John Burt Foster, Jr -- Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment -- An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak / Fiona Bjorling -- Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire ("The River Potudan") / Eric Naiman -- "This Could Have Been Foreseen": Kharms's "The Old Woman" (Starukha) Revisited -- A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-Gulland -- Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk" / Leona Toker -- The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents" / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec -- Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Kunstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse" / Erica Greber -- Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts -- "The Lady with the Dogs," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger -- Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet" / Mark Lipovetsky -- Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph" / Sven Spieker -- The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Olga Bogdanova |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Short stories, Russian -- History and criticism
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Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Russian fiction
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Short stories, Russian
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Russisch
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Kurzgeschichte
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Erzählung
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Erzählprosa -- russische -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Kurzgeschichte.
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Russisch.
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Russisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parts, Lyudmila.
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| ISBN |
1618110160 |
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9781618110169 |
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