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Early Soviet Postmodernism

Raoul Eshelman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

1997
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-31789-1 (ISBN)

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Soviet postmodernism is part of a long-term cultural development that began with the death of Stalin in 1953 and has continued on up to the present day. The book treats the early phase of Soviet postmodernism, which began to emerge in the late 1950's and lasted until the mid-1970's. Early Soviet postmodernism agrees with later, neoavantgardist postmodernism in that it distrusts modernist figures of thought such as utopianism, dialectical argumentation, and mythopoetic "grand narratives." Unlike late postmodernism, which appropriates these figures ironically, early Soviet postmodernism is still involved in a serious, agonized attempt to "correct" or rework them in a serious way. The epistemological failure of these efforts marks this literature as specifically postmodern. The book charts the development of this epoch in four important "genres" of postwar Soviet literature: in village prose (Nagibin, Solzenicyn, Belov, Rasputin); in Vasilij Suksin's short stories about eccentric characters; in Jurij Trifonov's urban prose; and in the lyric poetry of Evgenij Evtusenko and Andrej Voznesenskij.

The Author: Raoul Eshelman is an American who was born in Munich in 1956. After graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in Political Science and German in 1978, he continued his graduate education in Slavics at the University of Constance, where he received his M.A. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1988. From 1989-1996 he was an assistant professor of Slavic literature at Hamburg University. As of now he has come full circle and is a Privatdozent at the University of Munich.

Contents: Four Perspectives on Early Soviet Postmodernism - Prepostmodernism and Late Modernism: Konstantin Paustovskij and Mixail Zoscenko - Village Prose and the Importance of Being Limited (Nagibin, Solzenicyn, Belov, Rasputin) - Vasilij Suksin and the Dialectics of Stagnation - Jurij Trifonov's Not-So-Great Chain of Being - Evgenij Evtusenko, Andrej Voznesenskij and the Maximal Subject.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1997
Reihe/Serie	Slavische Literaturen ; 12
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Early • Eshelman • Postmodernism • soviet
ISBN-10	3-631-31789-1 / 3631317891
ISBN-13	978-3-631-31789-1 / 9783631317891
Zustand	Neuware