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Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose

Postmodernism and the Quest for History

Sven Spieker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

1995
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-46940-8 (ISBN)

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The question of postmodernism in Soviet literature during the "period of stagnation" is closely linked to the problem of history and its representation. In Andrej Bitov's prose, the intellectual's ambition to transcend the Stalinist past in order to reenter history at a point prior to trauma is mostly unsuccessful. Bitov's prose may be seen as a demonstration of the failure of modernist and pre-modernist models of mnemonic representation in the postmodern context of the Soviet Union. His characters' efforts to realign themselves with the modernist avantgarde routinely meet with the impossibility of establishing any viable metapositions vis-à-vis official culture and its ideology. The present study investigates the psychological, aesthetic, and epistemological implications of Bitov's postmodern treatment of memory.

The Author: Sven Spieker was born in Bonn, Germany in 1963. After studying in Bonn and London, he received his B.A. in Slavics from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London). He continued his studies at Merton College, Oxford, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He obtained his Ph.D from Oxford University in 1993. At present he teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contents: Postmodernism in the Soviet Union - History and its representation in modernist, socialist realist, and postmodern aesthetics - Different models of mnemonic representation and their applicability in the Soviet context - Andrej Bitov as a postmodernist - Bitov's attitude towards modernism and socialist realism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.1995
Reihe/Serie	Slavische Literaturen ; 11
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
Schlagworte	andrej • BITOV • Figures • Forgetting • History • Memory • Postmodernism • Prose • Quest • Spieker
ISBN-10	3-631-46940-3 / 3631469403
ISBN-13	978-3-631-46940-8 / 9783631469408
Zustand	Neuware