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Author Kriza, Elisa

Title Alexander Solzhenitsyn : a Study of the Western Reception of his Literary Writings, Historical Interpretations, and Political Ideas
Published Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v. 131
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Goal and the Scope of the Study; 1.2 Review of Research Literature on the Subject; 1.3 Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Project; 2. Solzhenitsyn as a Writer and a Witness; 2.1 The Style and Genre of Solzhenitsyn's camp-related Literature; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; The Gulag Archipelago; 2.2 The Experience behind the Text: Camp Literature and Witness Literature; 2.3 The Reception of Solzhenitsyn's Camp Literature; 2.4 Chapter Conclusion
3. Solzhenitsyn's Oeuvre between Aesthetics and Politics3.1 Introduction to Methods and Contextualization; 3.2 Anti-communism: Solzhenitsyn at the Heart of the Cold War; Solzhenitsyn's Reception during the Cold War; Solzhenitsyn in Brandt's Germany; Solzhenitsyn in 1970's Britain and the US; Solzhenitsyn's Late Cold War Reception; Solzhenitsyn's Reception upon the Collapse of European Communism; 3.3 Solzhenitsyn in Revisionist Debates; Introduction; Revisionism in Solzhenitsyn's Work and Reception; Solzhenitsyn and World War II; Solzhenitsyn and Russian Nationalism
Solzhenitsyn and "the Jews"3.4 Political Christianity; 3.5 Comparative Chapter Conclusion; 4. Solzhenitsyn in History; 4.1 Solzhenitsyn and Historiography; 4.2 Solzhenitsyn and Memory Culture in East and West; 4.3 Chapter Conclusion; Conclusions; The Ethic; The Political; The Aesthetic; Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography
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Subject Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783838266893
3838266897